Research and improvement of ECG compression algorithm based on EZW
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Real-Time Cardiac Mapping with a Noninvasive Imageless Electrocardiographic Imaging System
Published on: April 11, 2025
Ziran Peng1, Guojun Wang2, Huabin Jiang3
1School of Information Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, 410083, China; Hunan Vocational College of Commerce, Changsha 410025, China.
Abstract:
Embedded zerotree wavelet (EZW) is an efficient compression method that has advantages in coding, but its multilayer structure information coding reduces signal compression ratio. This paper studies the optimization of the EZW compression algorithm and aims to improve it. First, we used lifting wavelet transformation to process electrocardiograph (ECG) signals, focusing on the lifting algorithm. Second, we utilized the EZW compression coding algorithm, through the ECG information decomposition to determine the feature detection value. Then, according to the feature information, we weighted the wavelet coefficients of ECG (through the coefficient as a measure of weight) to achieve the goal of improved compression benefit.
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