An Efficient Electrocardiography Data Compression
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Author list: Luanloet, Passakorn; Suwansantisuk, Watcharapan; Kumhom, Pinit
Publisher: Electrical Engineering/Electronics, Computer, Communications and Information Technology Association
Publication year: 2023
Journal: ECTI Transactions on Computer and Information Technology (2286-9131)
Volume number: 17
Issue number: 3
Start page: 399
End page: 409
Number of pages: 11
ISSN: 2286-9131
Languages: English-Great Britain (EN-GB)
Abstract
In healthcare, electrocardiography (ECG) sensors generate a large amount of heart electrical signal that must be efficiently compressed to enable fast data transfer and reduce storage costs. Existing methods for ECG data compression do not fully exploit the characteristics of ECG signals, leading to suboptimal compression. This study proposes a data compression technique for ECG data by exploiting the known characteristics of ECG signals. Our approach combines Savitzky-Golay filtering, detrending, discrete cosine transform, scalar quantization, run-length encoding, and Huffman coding for the effective compression. To optimize the compression performance, we generated quantization intervals tailored to the ECG data characteristics. The proposed method experimentally produces a high compression ratio of 127.61 for a design parameter K = 8, a minimum percentage root mean square difference of 1.03% for K = 128, and a maximum quality score (QS) of 39.78, where K is the number of quantization intervals. Moreover, we compared the proposed method to state-of-the-art methods on a widely used ECG benchmark dataset. We found that the proposed method outperforms the others in terms of the QS, which measures the overall compression-decompression ability. By enabling more storage and faster data transfer, the proposed method can facilitate the widespread use and analysis of large volumes of ECG data, thereby contributing to advances in healthcare. ฉ 2023, ECTI Association. All rights reserved.
Keywords
Data Compression in Healthcare, Data Management
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