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    Area of Science:

    • Neuromuscular Physiology
    • Biomedical Engineering
    • Ultrasound Imaging

    Background:

    • Accurate mapping of motor unit (MU) territories is crucial for understanding the relationship between motoneuron activity and muscle contraction.
    • Existing ultrafast ultrasound (UUS) methods for MU territory mapping have limitations in spatiotemporal consistency and validation.
    • There is a need for precise, non-invasive techniques to map MU territories.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop and validate an automated UUS-based framework, P2P-R2, for extracting MU twitch areas with high spatiotemporal precision.
    • To compare the performance of P2P-R2 against existing methods using various feature extraction strategies.
    • To assess the framework's ability to capture complex MU activity patterns.

    Main Methods:

    • Developed P2P-R2, a two-step automated framework integrating intensity and temporal similarity features for MU twitch area extraction from spike-triggered averaged (STA) UUS data.
    • Acquired concurrent dual-probe UUS images and intramuscular EMG signals for STA data generation and validation.
    • Benchmarked P2P-R2 against intensity-based, similarity-based, and prior methods using spatial and temporal evaluation metrics.

    Main Results:

    • P2P-R2 demonstrated superior performance, achieving significantly higher within-region twitch consistency ($R^{2}_{s}$ = 0.96) and between-probe twitch agreement ($R$ = 0.88) compared to Naive STA.
    • The framework reduced centroid-to-electrode distance (10.36mm) and improved spatial agreement (RoA = 0.09).
    • P2P-R2 successfully captured intricate MU activity, including twisting, splitting, and asynchronous movements.

    Conclusions:

    • The P2P-R2 framework enables precise and robust extraction of MU twitch areas in both spatial and temporal domains.
    • Its automated and source-agnostic design facilitates the development of fully non-invasive applications.
    • P2P-R2 holds promise for advancing neuromuscular diagnostics, motor unit tracking, and human-machine interfaces.