A new near-lossless EEG compression method using ANN-based reconstruction technique

Compression algorithm is an essential part of Telemedicine systems, to store and transmit large amount of medical signals. Most of existing compression methods utilize fixed transforms such as discrete cosine transform (DCT) and wavelet and usually cannot efficiently extract signal redundancy especially for non-stationary signals such as electroencephalogram (EEG). In this paper, we first propose learning-based adaptive transform using combination of DCT and artificial neural network (ANN) reconstruction technique. This adaptive ANN-based transform is applied to the DCT coefficients of EEG data to reduce its dimensionality and also to estimate the original DCT coefficients of EEG in the reconstruction phase. To develop a new near lossless compression method, the difference between the original DCT coefficients and estimated ones are also quantized. The quantized error is coded using Arithmetic coding and sent along with the estimated DCT coefficients as compressed data. The proposed method was applied to various datasets and the results show higher compression rate compared to the state-of-the-art methods.