Comparison study of EMG signals compression by methods transform using vector quantization, SPIHT and arithmetic coding.

Eloundou Pascal Ntsama,Pierre Ele,Welba Colince

doi:10.1186/s40064-016-2095-7

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https://doi.org/10.1186/s40064-016-2095-7

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Abstract

In this article, we make a comparative study for a new approach compression between discrete cosine transform (DCT) and discrete wavelet transform (DWT). We seek the transform proper to vector quantization to compress the EMG signals. To do this, we initially associated vector quantization and DCT, then vector quantization and DWT. The coding phase is made by the SPIHT coding (set partitioning in hierarchical trees coding) associated with the arithmetic coding. The method is demonstrated and evaluated on actual EMG data. Objective performance evaluations metrics are presented: compression factor, percentage root mean square difference and signal to noise ratio. The results show that method based on the DWT is more efficient than the method based on the DCT.

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Electromyography has a great important in pathological diagnostic, of patients suffering of neuromuscular disorders and for the prevention of premature births; well many data are recorded and stored in the hospitals
The aim in this article is finding the best transform (DWT or discrete cosine transform (DCT)) which is adapted to vector quantization to compress the EMG signals for our new compression approach
The discrete cosine transform has brought good results, it is less adequate to compress EMG signals by vector quantization compared to the discrete wavelet transform

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Introduction

Electromyography has a great important in pathological diagnostic, of patients suffering of neuromuscular disorders and for the prevention of premature births; well many data are recorded and stored in the hospitals. According to the works of Sana and Kaïs (2009) a recording of an electrocardiogram (ECG) per day at a resolution of 12 bits/sample requires to average of over 100 megabytes of memory These numbers far exceed the capabilities of traditional systems of storage and transmission. Compression systems which can guarantee high compression ratios operate according to Fig. 1 These compression systems concern lossy compression methods; that exploit at best the redundancy in the signal. Most of these compression systems are using transformed methods, which allow switching from spatial domain to a transform domain where the coefficients are low correlation. The principle of these decorrelators, consist to focus the information on a small number of values, the other being near zero

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