Wavelet Compression of ECG Signals Using SPIHT Algorithm

In this paper we present a novel approach for wavelet compression of electrocardiogram (ECG) signals based on the set partitioning in hierarchical trees (SPIHT) coding algorithm. SPIHT algorithm has achieved prominent success in image compression. Here we use a modified version of SPIHT for one dimensional signals. We applied wavelet transform with SPIHT coding algorithm on different records of MIT-BIH database. The results show the high efficiency of this method in ECG compression.

• Mohammad Pooyan
• Ali Taheri
• Morteza Moazami-Goudarzi
• Iman Saboori

• ECG compression
• wavelet
• SPIHT.

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