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  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Signal Processing
  • Data Compression

Background:

  • Electrocardiogram (ECG) signal acquisition is crucial for diagnosing heart conditions.
  • IoT-enabled wearable devices are increasingly used for remote healthcare, generating large data volumes.
  • Efficient ECG data management is essential due to storage and transmission limitations.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose an efficient compression algorithm for 2D ECG signals.
  • To improve storage and transmission efficiency for ECG data in telemedicine applications.
  • To evaluate the compression performance against existing methods and various wavelet transforms.

Main Methods:

  • Application of the 1D Cohen-Daubechies-Feauveau 9/7 wavelet transform to 2D ECG signals.
  • Quantization of transform coefficients and retention based on target reconstruction error.
  • Adaptive Huffman encoding for further compression of quantized coefficients.
  • Testing on the MIT-BIH arrhythmia database and assessment of anomaly impact.

Main Results:

  • The proposed algorithm demonstrated improved compression performance by increasing sparsity.
  • Evaluated metrics included quality score (30.23), percent root-mean-square difference (5.07), signal-to-noise ratio (26.78 dB), and compression ratio (7.21).
  • The method showed superior compression efficacy compared to other wavelet transforms and existing methods.

Conclusions:

  • The developed compression algorithm significantly enhances storage efficiency for ECG data.
  • The method offers potential improvements in bandwidth utilization for real-time data transmission.
  • This approach supports effective ECG data management in telemedicine and wearable healthcare systems.