Abstract
The improvement in the performance of a wavelet packet based compression scheme for single lead electrocardiogram (ECG) data, obtained by prefiltering noise from the ECG signals, is investigated. The removal of powerline interference and the attenuation of high-frequency muscle noise are considered. Selected records from the MIT-BIH Arrhythmia Database are used as test signals. After both types of noise artifact were filtered, an average data rate of 167.6 bits per second (corresponding to a compression ratio of 23.62), with an average root mean-square (rms) error of 15.886 (mu) V, was achieved. These figures represent better than a 9% improvement in data rate and a 13.5% reduction in rms error over compressing the unfiltered signals.© (1995) COPYRIGHT SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering. Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.
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