title: ECG data compression using cut and align beats approach and 2-D transforms.
abstract: A new electrocardiogram (ECG) data compression method is presented which employs a two dimensional (2-D) transform. This 2-D transform method utilizes the fact that ECG signals generally show two types of redundancies--between adjacent heartbeats and between adjacent samples. A heartbeat data sequence is cut and beat-aligned to form a 2-D data array. Any 2-D compression method can then be applied. Transform coding using the 2-D discrete cosine transform (DCT) [2-D DCT] is employed here as an example. Using selections from the MIT-BIH arrhythmia and Medtronic databases, results are presented that illustrate substantial improvement in compression ratio over one-dimensional methods for comparable percent root-mean-square difference (PRD).
authors.affiliation: University of Minnesota, Department of Electrical Engineering, Minneapolis 55455, USA. hwlee@ece.umn.edu
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: K M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Buckley
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001145:Arrhythmias, Cardiac / Q000175:diagnosis; D004562:Electrocardiography; D006801:Humans; D008955:Models, Cardiovascular; D017711:Nonlinear Dynamics; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted