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Mixed-transform based codec for 2D compression of ECG signals

Signal Processing 2019-08-12 v1

Abstract

A method for ECG compression, by imaging the record as a 2D array and implementing a transform lossy compression strategy, is advanced. The particularity of the proposed transformation consists in applying a Discrete Wavelet Transform along one of the dimensions and the Discrete Cosine Transform along the other dimension. The performance of the method is demonstrated on the MIT-BIH Arrhythmia database. Significant improvements upon the 1D version of the codec, and on benchmarks for 2D ECG compression, are achieved.

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@article{arxiv.1908.03433,
  title  = {Mixed-transform based codec for 2D compression of ECG signals},
  author = {Johan Chagnon and Laura Rebollo-Neira},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.03433},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

MATLAB software for implementing the codec has been made available on http://www.nonlinear-approx.info/examples/node014.html

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