Abstract
Recent medical information systems are striving towards real-time monitoring models to care patients anytime and anywhere through ECG signals. However, there are several limitations such as data distortion and limited bandwidth in wireless communications. In order to overcome such limitations, this research focuses on compression. Few researches have been made to develop a specialized compression algorithm for ECG data transmission in real-time monitoring wireless network. Not only that, recent researches’ algorithm is not appropriate for ECG signals. Therefore this paper presents a more developed algorithm EDLZW for efficient ECG data transmission. Results actually showed that the EDLZW compression ratio was 8.66, which was a performance that was 4 times better than any other recent compression method widely used today.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 161 |
| Pages (from-to) | 2-8 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Journal of Medical Systems |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2015 Jan |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2014, Springer Science+Business Media New York.
Keywords
- Compression
- ECG
- EDLZW
- Medical information system
- Wireless communications
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Medicine (miscellaneous)
- Information Systems
- Health Informatics
- Health Information Management