Quality driven gold washing adaptive vector quantization and its application to ECG data compression

The gold washing (GW) adaptive vector quantization (AVQ) (GW-AVQ) is a relatively new scheme for data compression. The adaptive nature of the algorithm provides the robustness for wide variety of the signals. However, the performance of GW-AVQ highly dependent on a preset parameter called distortion...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE transactions on biomedical engineering Jg. 47; H. 2; S. 209 - 218
Hauptverfasser: MIAOU, S.-G, YEN, H.-L
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY IEEE 01.02.2000
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The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
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ISSN:0018-9294, 1558-2531
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Zusammenfassung:The gold washing (GW) adaptive vector quantization (AVQ) (GW-AVQ) is a relatively new scheme for data compression. The adaptive nature of the algorithm provides the robustness for wide variety of the signals. However, the performance of GW-AVQ highly dependent on a preset parameter called distortion threshold (dth) which must be determined by experience or trial-and-error. The authors propose an algorithm that allows them to assign an initial dth arbitrarily and then automatically progress toward a desired dth according to a specified quality criterion, such as the percent of root mean square difference (PRD) for electrocardiogram (ECG) signals. A theoretical foundation of the algorithm is also presented. This algorithm is particularly useful when multiple GW-AVQ codebooks and, thus, multiple dth's are required in a subband coding framework. Four sets of ECG data with entirely different characteristics are selected from the MIT/BIH database to verify the proposed algorithm. Both the direct GW-AVQ and a wavelet-based GW-AVQ are tested. The results show that a user specified PRD can always be reached regardless of the ECG waveforms, the initial selection of dth or whether a wavelet transform is used in conjunction with the GW-AVQ. An average result of 6% in PRD and 410 bits/s in compressed data rate is obtained with excellent visual quality.
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ISSN:0018-9294
1558-2531
DOI:10.1109/10.821761