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The aim of the paper is to evaluate the robustness of these features extracted from the EMG signal in transient state, on the forearm, for classifying common hand tasks.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>The signal associated to four hand gestures and the rest condition were acquired from ten healthy people and two persons with trans-radial amputation. A feature extraction algorithm allowed for encoding the EMG signals into muscular activation sequences, which were used to train four commonly used classifiers, namely Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA), Support Vector Machine (SVM), Non-linear Logistic Regression (NLR) and Artificial Neural Network (ANN). The offline performances were assessed with the entire sample of recruited people. The online performances were assessed with the amputee subjects. Moreover, a comparison of the proposed method with approaches based on the signal envelope in the transient state and in the steady state was conducted.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>The highest performance were obtained with the NLR classifier. Using the sequences, the offline classification accuracy was higher than 93% for healthy and amputee subjects and always higher than the approach with the signal envelope in transient state. As regards the comparison with the steady state, the performances obtained with the proposed method are slightly lower (&amp;lt;4%), but the classification occurred at least 200 ms earlier. 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