Wentao Wei

2.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
20 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Wentao Wei is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Human-Computer Interaction and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Wentao Wei has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 9 papers in Human-Computer Interaction and 6 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Wentao Wei's work include Muscle activation and electromyography studies (11 papers), Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (8 papers) and Hand Gesture Recognition Systems (8 papers). Wentao Wei is often cited by papers focused on Muscle activation and electromyography studies (11 papers), Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (8 papers) and Hand Gesture Recognition Systems (8 papers). Wentao Wei collaborates with scholars based in China, Singapore and United States. Wentao Wei's co-authors include Yu Hu, Yu Du, Wenguang Jin, Weidong Geng, Mohan Kankanhalli, Weidong Geng, Yongkang Wong, Jiajun Li, Hong Hong and Xiaoli Wu and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Scientific Reports and IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering.

In The Last Decade

Wentao Wei

17 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

Gesture recognition by instantaneous surface EMG images 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 2018 100 200 300 400
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Gesture recognition by instantaneous surface EMG images
    2016 459 citations Weidong Geng, Yu Du et al. Scientific Reports profile →
  2. A novel attention-based hybrid CNN-RNN architecture for sEMG-based gesture recognition
    2018 298 citations Yu Hu, Yongkang Wong et al. PLoS ONE profile →

Peers

Wentao Wei
Matteo Cognolato Switzerland
Cheikh Latyr Fall Canada
Ulysse Côté‐Allard Norway
Yinfeng Fang China
Mohammadreza Asghari Oskoei United Kingdom
Arjan Gijsberts Switzerland
Inhyuk Moon South Korea
Weidong Geng China
Mu-Seong Mun South Korea
Matteo Cognolato Switzerland
Wentao Wei
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Countries citing papers authored by Wentao Wei

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wentao Wei

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wentao Wei

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Wentao Wei. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Wentao Wei based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Wentao Wei. Wentao Wei is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Wei, Wentao, et al.. (2025). Improving Unimodal sEMG-Based Pattern Recognition Through Multimodal Generative Adversarial Learning. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement. 74. 1–20. 2 indexed citations
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Miao, Xinyu, et al.. (2023). Time Series Forest Fire Prediction Based on Improved Transformer. Forests. 14(8). 1596–1596. 17 indexed citations
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Hu, Xuhui, Aiguo Song, Jianzhi Wang, Hong Zeng, & Wentao Wei. (2022). Finger Movement Recognition via High-Density Electromyography of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Hand Muscles. Scientific Data. 9(1). 373–373. 18 indexed citations
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Wei, Wentao, et al.. (2022). New Dimension on Quality of Life Differences among Older Adults: A Comparative Analysis of Digital Consumption in Urban and Rural Areas of China. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 19(22). 15203–15203. 3 indexed citations
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Wei, Wentao, Hong Hong, & Xiaoli Wu. (2021). A Hierarchical View Pooling Network for Multichannel Surface Electromyography‐Based Gesture Recognition. Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience. 2021(1). 6591035–6591035. 23 indexed citations
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Wei, Wentao, Xuhui Hu, Hua Liu, Ming Zhou, & Yan Song. (2021). Towards Integration of Domain Knowledge‐Guided Feature Engineering and Deep Feature Learning in Surface Electromyography‐Based Hand Movement Recognition. Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience. 2021(1). 4454648–4454648. 5 indexed citations
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Liu, Fei, et al.. (2020). I-feed: A robotic platform of an assistive feeding robot for the disabled elderly population. Technology and Health Care. 28(4). 425–429. 15 indexed citations
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Wei, Wentao, et al.. (2019). Surface-Electromyography-Based Gesture Recognition by Multi-View Deep Learning. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. 66(10). 2964–2973. 192 indexed citations
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Hu, Yu, Yongkang Wong, Wentao Wei, et al.. (2018). A novel attention-based hybrid CNN-RNN architecture for sEMG-based gesture recognition. PLoS ONE. 13(10). e0206049–e0206049. 298 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zheng, Xiujuan, Wentao Wei, Qiu Huang, Shaoli Song, & Gang Huang. (2018). Automated Region of Interest Detection Method in Scintigraphic Glomerular Filtration Rate Estimation. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics. 23(2). 787–794. 7 indexed citations
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Zheng, Xiujuan, Wentao Wei, Qiu Huang, et al.. (2017). A Computer-Aided Analysis Method of SPECT Brain Images for Quantitative Treatment Monitoring: Performance Evaluations and Clinical Applications. BioMed Research International. 2017. 1–11. 1 indexed citations
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Du, Yu, Yongkang Wong, Wenguang Jin, et al.. (2017). Semi-Supervised Learning for Surface EMG-based Gesture Recognition. 1624–1630. 38 indexed citations
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Wei, Wentao, Yongkang Wong, Yu Du, et al.. (2017). A multi-stream convolutional neural network for sEMG-based gesture recognition in muscle-computer interface. Pattern Recognition Letters. 119. 131–138. 206 indexed citations
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Du, Yu, Wenguang Jin, Wentao Wei, Yu Hu, & Weidong Geng. (2017). Surface EMG-Based Inter-Session Gesture Recognition Enhanced by Deep Domain Adaptation. Sensors. 17(3). 458–458. 273 indexed citations
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Wei, Wentao, et al.. (2017). A Comprehensive Evaluation of Support Vector Machine in Hand Movement Classification Using Surface Electromyography. Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Letters. 9(5). 741–753. 2 indexed citations
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Geng, Weidong, Yu Du, Wenguang Jin, et al.. (2016). Gesture recognition by instantaneous surface EMG images. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 36571–36571. 459 indexed citations breakdown →

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