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    • Biomedical Engineering
    • Signal Processing
    • Neuroscience

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    • Real-time electroencephalogram (EEG) data requires efficient compression for storage and transmission.
    • Existing compression techniques may not adequately preserve diagnostic information, particularly for seizure detection.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop a novel, real-time EEG compression technique.
    • To evaluate the method's efficacy in both data compression and seizure-like activity detection.

    Main Methods:

    • Utilized discrete wavelet transform (DWT) to exploit redundancy across frequency subbands.
    • Employed dynamic reference lists for decorrelating subband coefficients.
    • Applied Set Partitioning in Hierarchical Trees (SPIHT) as a source coder.

    Main Results:

    • Achieved significant compression of one-dimensional (1-D) EEG channels.
    • Demonstrated successful detection of seizure-like activity at bitrates as low as 2 bits per sample.
    • Diagnostics-oriented assessment confirmed both compression and detection capabilities.

    Conclusions:

    • The proposed method offers effective real-time EEG compression.
    • The technique shows promise for integrated seizure detection within the compression algorithm.
    • This approach can maintain diagnostic utility at low bitrates.