IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
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IEEE Trans Biomed Eng · Feb 2000
Quality driven gold washing adaptive vector quantization and its application to ECG data compression.
The gold washing (GW) adaptive vector quantization (AVQ) (GW-AVQ) is a relatively new scheme for data compression. The adaptive nature of the algorithm provides the robustness for wide variety of the signals. However, the performance of GW-AVQ is highly dependent on a preset parameter called distortion threshold (dth) which must be determined by experience or trial-and-error. ⋯ Both the direct GW-AVQ and a wavelet-based GW-AVQ are tested. The results show that a user specified PRD can always be reached regardless of the ECG waveforms, the initial selection of dth or whether a wavelet transform is used in conjunction with the GW-AVQ. An average result of 6% in PRD and 410 bits/s in compressed data rate is obtained with excellent visual quality.