title: Data compression for arterial pulse waveform.
abstract: The arterial pulse possesses important clinical information in traditional Chinese medicine. It is usually recorded for a long period of time in the applications of telemedicine and PACS systems. Due to the huge amount of data, by recognizing the strong correlation between successive beat patterns in arterial pulse waveform sequences, a novel and efficient data compression scheme based mainly on pattern matching is introduced. The simulation results show that our coding scheme can achieve a very high compression ratio and low distortion for arterial pulse waveform.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical Engineering, National Chi Nan University, Pu-Li, Nan-Tou, Taiwan.
authors.forename: W S
authors.initials: WS
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: S Y
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Yuan
authors.forename: H E
authors.initials: HE
authors.lastname: Liao
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D001330:Electronic Data Processing; D004594:Electrophysiology; D006801:Humans; D011674:Pulse / Q000592:standards*