Scan-Along Polygonal Approximation for Data Compression of Electrocardiograms

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn BME-30, Issue 11, 1983, Pages 723-729

  Ishijima, Masa ^a   Shin, Soon Bum ^a   Hostetter, Gene H ^a   Sklansky, Jack ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING - ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS, DIGITAL - REAL TIME OPERATION; INFORMATION THEORY - DATA COMPRESSION; SIGNAL PROCESSING - DIGITAL TECHNIQUES;

POLYGONAL APPROXIMATION;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MATHEMATICS; METHODOLOGY;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTERS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0020850377     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.1983.325186     Document Type: Article

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