Quality assessment of ECG compression techniques using a wavelet-based diagnostic measure

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 182-191

  Al Fahoum, Amjed S ^a  

^a YARMOUK UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Electrocardiograph (ECG); Percent root mean squared difference (PRD); Wavelet transform; Wavelet based weighted PRD measure (WWPRD)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DATA COMPRESSION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; STATISTICAL METHODS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

PERCENT ROOT MEAN-SQUARED DIFFERENCE (PRD); WAVELET-BASED WEIGHTED PRD MEASURE (WWPRD);

ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA COMPRESSION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 30744454242     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2005.855554     Document Type: Article

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