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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Volume 49, Issue 7, Pages 671-680Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2002.1010850
Keywords
distortion-constrained codebook replenishment; (DCCR); tree vector (TV); vector quantization (VQ); wavelet transform (WT)
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In this paper, we propose a novel vector quantizer (VQ) in the wavelet domain for the compression of electrocardiogram (ECG) signals. A vector called tree vector (TV) is formed first in a novel structure, where wavelet transformed (WT) coefficients in the vector are arranged in the order of a hierarchical tree. Then, the TVs extracted from various WT subbands are collected in one single codebook. This feature is an advantage over traditional WT-VQ methods, where multiple codebooks are needed and are usually designed separately because numerical ranges of coefficient values in various WT subbands are quite different. Finally, a distortion-constrained codebook replenishment mechanism is incorporated into the VQ, where codevectors can be updated dynamically, to guarantee reliable quality of reconstructed ECG waveforms. With the proposed approach both visual quality and the objective quality in terms of the percent of root-mean-square difference (PRD) are excellent even in a very low bit rate. For the entire 48 records of Lead II ECG data in the MIT/BIH database, an average PRD of 7.3% at 146 b/s is obtained. For the same test data under consideration, the proposed method outperforms many recently published ones, including the best one known as the set partitioning in hierarchical trees.
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