• DocumentCode
    1224227
  • Title

    Fixed percentage of wavelet coefficients to be zeroed for ECG compression

  • Author

    Benzid, R. ; Marir, F. ; Boussaad, A. ; Benyoucef, M. ; Arar, D.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electron., Univ. of Batna, Algeria
  • Volume
    39
  • Issue
    11
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    5/29/2003 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    830
  • Lastpage
    831
  • Abstract
    A new method for ECG compression is presented. After the pyramidal wavelet decomposition, the resultant coefficients are subjected to an iterative threshold until a fixed percentage target of wavelet coefficients to be zeroed is reached. Next, the lossless Huffman´s coding is used to increase the compression ratio. Quality preservation for good compression ratios is reported.
  • Keywords
    Huffman codes; data compression; electrocardiography; medical signal processing; signal reconstruction; wavelet transforms; ECG compression; ECG signal decomposition; MIT-BIH arrhythmia records; compression ratio; dichotomy algorithm; fixed percentage target; iterative threshold; linear quantisation; lossless Huffman coding; pyramidal wavelet decomposition; quality preservation; reconstructed signals; wavelet coefficients zeroing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:20030560
  • Filename
    1207219