• DocumentCode
    2904920
  • Title

    A wavelet footprints-based compression scheme for ECG signals

  • Author

    Wei, Ho Tatt ; Jeoti, Varun

  • Author_Institution
    Universiti Teknologi Petronas, Tronoh, Malaysia
  • Volume
    A
  • fYear
    2004
  • fDate
    21-24 Nov. 2004
  • Firstpage
    283
  • Abstract
    Herein, an ECG compression scheme is proposed, which is based on the wavelet footprint representation of ECG signals [Ho Tatt Wei and Varun Jeoti, July 2004] in combination with some signal preprocessing, linear quantization and Huffman coding. Experiments conducted on selected records of the MTT-BlH Arrythmia database indicate that compression ratios of about 10x are achievable with average PRD of 0.8450%.
  • Keywords
    Huffman codes; data compression; electrocardiography; medical signal processing; quantisation (signal); signal representation; wavelet transforms; ECG signal; Huffman coding; linear quantization; signal preprocessing; wavelet footprint representation; wavelet footprints-based compression scheme; Discrete wavelet transforms; Electrocardiography; Extrapolation; Medical diagnostic imaging; Polynomials; Probability distribution; Quantization; Signal generators; Wavelet coefficients; Wavelet domain;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    TENCON 2004. 2004 IEEE Region 10 Conference
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-8560-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/TENCON.2004.1414412
  • Filename
    1414412