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. 2025 Mar 27;25(7):2122. doi: 10.3390/s25072122
EWGSOP European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older People
AWGS Asian Working Group for Sarcopenia
IWGS International Working Group on Sarcopenia
FNIH Foundation of National Institutes of Health
DXA Dual-energy X-ray Absorptiometry
BIA Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis
MRI Magnetic Resonance Imaging
CT Computed Tomography
SPPB Short Physical Performance Battery
sEMG surface Electromyography
AI Artificial Intelligence
SA Statistical Analysis
PRISMA Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses
ML Machine Learning
VL Vastus Lateralis
GL Gastrocnemius Lateralis
TA Tibialis Anterior
RF Rectus Femoris
BF Biceps Femoris
GM Gluteus Maximus
HD-sEMG High-Density sEMG
BRA Brachioradialis
FCR Flexor Carpi Radialis
FDS Flexor Digitorum Superficialis
FCU Flexor Carpi Ulnaris
ECU Extensor Carpi Ulnaris
ED Extensor Digitorum
BB Biceps Brachii
TB Triceps Brachii
L5 Multifidus
L1 Iliocostalis Lumborum
MVC Maximum Voluntary Contraction
SVC Sustained Voluntary Contraction
EF Elbow Flexion
EE Elbow Extension
KF Knee Flexion
KE Knee Extension
IED Inter-electrode Distance
IZ Innervation Zones
SENIAM Surface EMG for Non-invasive Assessment of Muscles
EMD Empirical Mode Decomposition
ICA Independent Component Analysis
RMS Root Mean Square
MAV Mean Absolute Value
iEMG Integrated EMG
WL Waveform Length
ZC Zero Crossing
SSC Slope Sign Change
CWT Continuous Wavelet Transform
WE Wavelet Entropy
IAV Integrated Absolute Value
MPF Mean Power Frequency
MF Median Frequency
AIF Averaged Instantaneous Frequency
IMFs Intrinsic Mode Functions
SE Sample Entropy
mRMR Minimum Redundancy Maximum Relevance
RQA Recurrence Quantification Analysis
BW Bandwidth
SMR Spectral Moment Ratio
SampEn Sample Entropy
SpecEn Spectral Entropy
HFD Higuchi Fractal Dimension
CSD Center Shape Distance
LSD Left Shape Distance
RSD Right Shape Distance
PCA Principal Component Analysis
ACR Amplitude Contribution Ratio
CCR Co-contraction Ratio
MCI Muscular Contraction Intensity
MCD Muscle Contraction Dynamics
SA Statistical Analysis
SVM Support Vector Machine
RF Random Forest
GBM Gradient Boosting Machine
SHAP SHapley Additive exPlanations
DT Decision Tree
LR Logistic Regression
KNN K-Nearest Neighbors
NB Naive Bayes
MLP Multi-layer Perceptron
XGB Extreme Gradient Boosting
LDA Linear Discriminant Analysis
ASM Appendicular Skeletal Muscle Mass
ICDMC Incenter-Circumcenter Distance of Muscle Coordination