An evaluation of the effects of wavelet coefficient quantisation in transform based EEG compression

Computers in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 661-669

  Garry, Higgins ^a   McGinley, Brian ^a   Jones, Edward ^a   Glavin, Martin ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

AEEG; Compression; EEG; Quantisation; SPIHT; Telemedicine

Indexed keywords

AEEG; COMPRESSION METHODS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHIC SIGNALS; LOSSY COMPRESSION METHODS; QUANTISATION; SPIHT; THRESHOLDING METHODS; WAVELET COEFFICIENTS;

COMPACTION; DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; TELEMEDICINE;

DATA COMPRESSION;

ARTICLE; DATA BASE; DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENTROPY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SET PARTITIONING IN HIERARCHICAL TREE; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

DATA COMPRESSION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 84877698031     PISSN: 00104825     EISSN: 18790534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2013.02.011     Document Type: Article

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