KLT-based quality controlled compression of single-lead ECG.

Blanchett, T; Kember, G C; Fenton, G A · IEEE Trans Biomed Eng · 1998

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

An electrocardiogram (ECG) compression algorithm based on a combination of the Karhunen-Loeve transform (KLT) and multirate sampling is introduced. The use of multirate sampling reduces KLT computational times to those reported for wavelet-packet-based compression techniques. A beat-by-beat quality controlled compression criterion is shown to be necessary to ensure clinically adequate reconstruction of each beat. The resulting quality controlled algorithm efficiently achieves compression rates of approximately 30-40:1 for the MIT-BIH database.

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