A novel ECG signal compression method using spindle convolutional auto-encoder.

Journal: Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
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Abstract

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: With rapid development of telehealth system and cloud platform, traditional 12-ECG signals with high resolution generate heavy burdens in data storage and transmission. This problem is increasingly addressed with various ECG compression methods. The important objective of compression method is to achieve a high-ratio and quality guaranteed compression. Consequently, to achieve this objective, this work presents a deep-learning-based spindle convolutional auto-encoder. The spindle structure achieves the high-ratio compression by reducing the dimension and guarantees the quality by increasing the dimension and end-to-end framework.

Authors

  • Fei Wang
    Department of Population Health Sciences, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY, United States.
  • Qiming Ma
    Institute of Electrical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China. Electronic address: maqiming@mail.iee.ac.cn.
  • Wenhan Liu
  • Sheng Chang
  • Hao Wang
    Department of Cardiology, Second Medical Center, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China.
  • Jin He
  • Qijun Huang