Development of a Compression Algorithm Suitable for Exercise ECG Data

Abstract

Huge amount of data recorded during exercise electrocardiography may be stored for further analysis or be transferred to a remote physician through telephone lines, Due to channel limitations, data must be compressed prior to the transfer, In this study, an algorithm suitable for compression of exercise electrocardiography data is proposed, 2-D Discrete Cosine Transformation is applied in the algorithm to make use of the pseudo periodic behavior of the data, To increase the correlation, data is aligned from the R peaks, QRS detection is performed using Fast Dyadic Wavelet Transform, The success rate of the detection algorithm is found to be 99,78%, Uniform scalar quantization is used with zonal coding method in the coding of 2-D Discrete Cosine Transform coefficients, The performance of the compression algorithm is evaluated in terms of compression ratio, reconstruction error and by compaflw the reports of the ST segment depression test applied before the compression and after the reconstruction to inspect whether vital information is preserved,

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 25, 2001
Accession Number
ADA409945

Entities

People

  • K. Uyar
  • Y. Z. Ider

Organizations

  • Middle East Technical University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Cardiovascular Diseases
  • Change Detection
  • Coding
  • Coefficients
  • Compression
  • Compression Ratio
  • Data Compression
  • Data Sets
  • Decompression
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Electrocardiography
  • Engineering
  • Filters
  • Two Dimensional
  • Wavelet Transforms

Readers

  • Brain and Cognitive Science; Experimental Psychology; Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.