• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37 no.4C
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• pp.313-320
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• 2012

An ECG(Electrocardiogram) compression can increase the processing speed of system as well as reduce amount of signal transmission and data storage of long-term records. Whereas conventional performance evaluations of loss or lossless compression algorithms measure PRD(Percent RMS Difference) and CR(Compression Ratio) in the viewpoint of engineers, this paper focused on the performance evaluations of compression algorithms in the viewpoint of diagnostician who diagnosis ECG. Generally, for not effecting the diagnosis in the ECG compression, the position, length, amplitude and waveform of the restored signal of PQRST wave should not be damaged. AZTEC, a typical ECG compression algorithm, is validated its effectiveness in conventional performance evaluation. In this paper, we propose novel performance evaluation of AZTEC in the viewpoint of diagnostician.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.07a
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• pp.2001-2004
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• 2008

모든 심전도 압축에서는 압축율과 신호왜곡간의 관계를 다루며 이는 매우 중요하다. 특별히 임상적인 의미를 가진다고 평가되는 5%의 Percent Root mean square Difference(PRD)값을 만족 시키면서 높은 압축율을 얻기 위한 연구는 필수적이다. 본 논문에서는 DCT를 사용하여 심전도 압축을 수행하였을 때, 심전도의 주요한 파라미터인 파형과 RRI(R-R Interval)가 압축율에 따라 어떻게 변화하는지를 평가하고 심전도의 두 가지 주요 파라미터를 진단정보의 왜곡 없이 압축할 수 있는 DCT계수 및 압축율을 도출해 내었다. 실험에는 MIT-BIH ECG Compression Test Database를 사용하였으며 DCT압축을 수행하였을 때 5 % 이하의 PRD를 확보하기 위해서는 81개 샘플에 대하여 평균 4.496 : 1, 최하 3.422 : 1 의 CR을 가지는 것을 확인할 수 있었으며, QRS를 올바르게 검출하는 범위에서의 78개의 샘플에 대하여 평균 CR은 17.3 : 1 최저 CR은 4.6512 : 1 로 나타났다. QRS 검출 한계에서의 RRI 시간왜곡은 평균 3.7149 $\pm$ 4.3147 ms로 나타났으며, 최대 시간왜곡은 13.0256 $\pm$ 14.2035 ms 로 조사되었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2013.05a
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• pp.990-991
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• 2013

본 연구에서는 모바일 환경에서 장시간 심전도 계측 시 발생하는 무선 및 배터리의 제한적인 자원의 문제점을 해결하기 위하여 낮은 연산량과 높은 압축률을 가지는 템플릿 매칭 기반의 압축 알고리즘을 구현하였다. 템플릿 매칭 기법을 이용한 심전도 데이터 압축은 심전도의 특징점인 R-peak를 검출하여 템플릿을 생성하고 이후 입력되는 심전도 신호와 유사성을 판단하여 해당되는 템플릿의 정보만 저장하고 전송하는 방법이다. 구현된 알고리즘의 성능평가를 위하여 MIT-BIH Normal Sinus Rhythm Database의 10개 레코드에서 각각 10분간 데이터를 추출하여 성능평가를 수행하였으며, 이때, 압축률과 복원율 오차의 평균이 각각 7.94% 와 5.33%의 성능을 나타내었다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.653-659
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• 2011

In general, electrocardiogram(ECG) signals are sampled with a frequency over 200Hz and stored for a long time. It is required to compress data efficiently for storing and transmitting them. In this paper, a method for compression of ECG data is proposed, using by Non Uniform B-spline approximation, which has been widely used to approximation theory of applied mathematics and geometric modeling. ECG signals are compressed and reconstructed using B-spline basis function which curve has local controllability and control a shape and curve in part. The proposed method selected additional knot with each step for minimizing reconstruction error and reduced time complexity. It is established that the proposed method using B-spline approximation has good compression ratio and reconstruct besides preserving all feature point of ECG signals, through the experimental results from MIT-BIH Arrhythmia database.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.52 no.3
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• pp.89-95
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• 2015

Compresses sensing (CS) technique is beneficial for reducing power consumption of biopotential acquisition circuits in wireless healthcare system. This paper investigates the maximum possible compress ratio for various biopotential signal when the CS technique is applied. By using the CS technique, we perform the compression and reconstruction of typical electrocardiogram(ECG), electromyogram(EMG), electroencephalogram(EEG) signals. By comparing the original signal and reconstructed signal, we determines the validity of the CS-based signal compression. Raw-biopotential signal is compressed by using a psuedo-random matrix, and the compressed signal is reconstructed by using the Block Sparse Bayesian Learning(BSBL) algorithm. EMG signal, which is the most sparse biopotential signal, the maximum compress ratio is found to be 10, and the ECG'sl maximum compress ratio is found to be 5. EEG signal, which is the least sparse bioptential signal, the maximum compress ratio is found to be 4. The results of this work is useful and instrumental for the design of wireless biopotential signal monitoring circuits.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.23 no.6
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• pp.519-526
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• 2013

ECG signal has the feature that is repeated in a cycle of P, Q, R, S, and T waves and is sampled at a high sampling frequency in general. By using the feature of periodic ECG signals, maximizing compression efficiency while minimizing the loss of important information for diagnosis is required. However, the periodic characteristics of such amplitude and period is not constant by measuring time and patients. Even though measured at the same time, the patient's characteristics display different periodic intervals. In this paper, an adaptive multi-level coding is provided by coding adaptively the dominant and non-dominant signal interval of the ECG signal. The proposed method can maximize the compression efficiency by using a multi-level code that applies different compression ratios considering information loss associated with the dominant signal intervals and non-dominant signal intervals. For the case of long time measurement, this method has a merit of maximizing compression ratio compared with existing compression methods that do not use the periodicity of the ECG signal and for the lossless compression coding of non-dominant signal intervals, the method has an advantage that can be stored without loss of information. The effectiveness of the ECG signal compression is proved throughout the experiment on ECG signal of MIT-BIH arrhythmia database.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.624-630
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• 2010

As electrocardiogram(ECG) signals are generally sampled with a frequency of over 200Hz, a method to compress diagnostic information without losing data is required to store and transmit them efficiently. In this paper, an ECG signal compression method, which uses feature points based on curvature, is proposed. The feature points of P, Q, R, S, T waves, which are critical components of the ECG signal, have large curvature values compared to other vertexes. Thus, these vertexes are extracted with the proposed method, which uses local extremum of curvatures. Furthermore, in order to minimize reconstruction errors of the ECG signal, extra vertexes are added according to the iterative vertex selection method. Through the experimental results on the ECG signals from MIT-BIH Arrhythmia database, it is concluded that the vertexes selected by the proposed method preserve all feature points of the ECG signals. In addition, they are more efficient than the AZTEC(Amplitude Zone Time Epoch Coding) method.

• Proceedings of the KOSOMBE Conference
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• v.1994 no.05
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• pp.43-48
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• 1994

본 논문은 반복 수축 변환의 프랙탈(fractal) 이론에 근거한 심전도 데이터 압축에 관한 연구이다. 심전도 데이터에 반복 함수계(Iterated Function System : IFS) 모델을 적용하여 신호 자체의 자기 유사성(self-similarity)을 반복 수축 변환으로 표현하고, 그 매개변수만을 저장한다. 재구성시는 변환 매개변수를 반복 적용하여 원래의 신호에 근사되어지는 값을 얻게 된다. 심전도 데이타는 부분적으로 자기 유사성을 갖는다고 보고, 부분 자기-유사 프랙탈 모델(piecewise self-affine fractal model)로 표현될 수 있다. 이 모델은 신호를 특정 구간들로 나누어 각 구간들에 대해 최적 프랙탈 보간(fractal interpolation)을 구하고 그 중 오차가 가장 작은 매개변수만을 추출하여 저장한다. 이 방법을 심전도 데이타에 적용한 결과 특정 압축율에 대해 아주 적은 재생오차 (percent root-mean-square difference : PRD)를 얻을 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.46 no.4
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• pp.23-27
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• 2009

In this paper, we propose an effective compression method for electrocardiogram (ECG) signals. 1-D ECG signals are reconstructed to 2-D ECG data by period and complexity sorting schemes with image compression techniques to increase inter and intra-beat correlation. The proposed method added block division and mean-period normalization techniques on top of conventional 2-D data ECG compression methods. JPEG 2000 is chosen for compression of 2-D ECG data. Standard MIT-BIH arrhythmia database is used for evaluation and experiment. The results show that the proposed method outperforms compared to the most recent literature especially in case of high compression rate.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.31-38
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• 2022

An electrocardiogram(ECG) is a recoding of electrical signals of the heart's cyclic activity and an important body information for diagnosing myocardial rhythm. Large amount of information are generated continuously and a significant period of cumulative signal is required for the purpose of diagnosing a specific disease. Therefore, research on compression including clinically acceptable lossy technique has been developed to reduce the amount of information significantly. Recently, wearable smart heart monitoring devices that can transmit electrocardiogram(ECG) are being developed. The use of electrocardiogram, an important personal information for healthcare service, is rapidly increasing. However, devices generally have limited capability and power consumption for user convenience, and it is often difficult to apply the existing compression method directly. It is essential to develop techniques that can process and transmit a large volume of signals in limited resources. A method for compressing and transmitting the ECG signals efficiently by using the cumulative average (template) of the unit waveform is proposed in the paper. The ECG is coded lovelessly using template matching. It is analyzed that the proposed method is superior to the existing compression methods at high compression ratio, and its complexity is not relatively high. And it is also possible to apply compression methods to template matching values.