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A Modified Run-Length Coding towards the Realization of a RRO-NRDPWT-Based ECG Data Compression System

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The wavelet-based approach that combines a reversible round-off nonrecursive discrete periodized wavelet transform (RRO-NRDPWT) and the set partitioning in hierarchical trees (SPIHT) scheme is an efficient ECG data compression. However, this RRO-NRDPWT-based system suffers from the high complexity of the SPIHT scheme during realization. In this paper, a modified run-length coding (MRLC) algorithm is proposed towards the realization of a RRO-NRDPWT-based ECG data compression system. The MRLC with its regularity and low computational complexity is suitable for hardware implementation, but at a cost of compression performance. This sacrifice is compensated by an efficient quantization scheme. By using the MIT-BIH arrhythmia database, the experimental results show that the proposed scheme can compete with the SPIHT scheme for a compression ratio (CR) greater than 8. Hardware simulations are taken using both the Verilog logic simulator with Cadence design platform, and a Xilinx FPGA EP2C35F672C6.

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  1. Department of Computer and Communication Engineering, National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology, Taiwan

    Hsieh-Wei Lee, King-Chu Hung, Tsung-Ching Wu & Cheng-Tung Ku

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Lee, HW., Hung, KC., Wu, TC. et al. A Modified Run-Length Coding towards the Realization of a RRO-NRDPWT-Based ECG Data Compression System. EURASIP J. Adv. Signal Process. 2011, 703752 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1155/2011/703752

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