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A DPCM-based ECG coder achieved compression ratios of 4.25 to 6.42 across various Physionet databases, with frame-wise compression rising to 12-14 in flat segments.
A DPCM-based ECG compression algorithm provides efficient data compression for real-time telemonitoring applications with low computational complexity.
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May support efficient ECG telemonitoring; leaves open prospective clinical validation.
This paper illustrates a DPCM based approach for real-time compression of ECG data for real time telemonitoring application. For real time implementation a `frame' is considered with one original sample followed by 64 first difference elements. The coder compresses the non-QRS regions of an ECG data stream through stages of first difference, joint sign and magnitude coding, and run length encoding. A hard thresholding at the equipotential regions have been applied to enhance the RLE efficiency. For testing 10 second ECG data from Physionet has been used with 10-bit quantization level. The CR, PRD and PRDN achieved with PTB Database (ptbdb) are 6.42, 9.77 and 9.77 respectively. With MIT-BIH arrhythmia data (mitdb), these values are 5.92, 8.19 and 8.19 respectively. With MIT-BIH ECG Compression test data (cdb), these values are 4.25, 5.37 and 6.65 respectively. The frame wise compression rises to a value of 12-14 in flat (TP) segments and low 1-2 in QRS regions. The computational simplicity of the algorithm provides an opportunity to implement the coder using a low cost microcontroller.
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Alam et al. (2014) studied this question. DPCM based ECG coder with thresholding was evaluated on Compression Ratio (CR), PRD, and PRDN. A DPCM-based ECG coder achieved compression ratios of 4.25 to 6.42 across various Physionet databases, with frame-wise compression rising to 12-14 in flat segments.
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