Percentage Area Difference (PAD) as a measure of distortion and its use in Maximum Enclosed Area (MEA), a new ECG signal compression algorithm

Author

Ambrosio, A. Caralli D ; Ortiz-Conde, A. ; Sánchez, F. J García

Author_Institution

Laboratorio de Electronica del Estado Solido, Univ. Simon Bolivar, Caracas, Venezuela

fYear

2002

fDate

6/24/1905 12:00:00 AM

Abstract

A new measure of distortion, named the Percentage Area Difference (PAD), is proposed as an alternative to existing ways of evaluating the performance of Electrocardiogram (ECG) signal lossy compression. This novel distortion measure, which corresponds to the area enclosed between the original and the reconstructed signal, is also used as a maximum tolerance comparison criterion in a new non-uniform sampling method, designated Maximum Enclosed Area algorithm (MEA), which is proposed here for direct ECG signal compression.

Keywords

data compression; electrocardiography; medical signal processing; signal sampling; ECG signal compression algorithm; distortion measure; maximum enclosed area; nonuniform sampling method; percentage area difference; Area measurement; Atherosclerosis; Compression algorithms; Design methodology; Distortion measurement; Electrocardiography; Loss measurement; Performance loss; Sampling methods; Signal design;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Devices, Circuits and Systems, 2002. Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE International Caracas Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7380-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCDCS.2002.1004092

Filename

1004092