Table 4 Compression performance comparison with other algorithms.

From: Efficient ECG Compression and QRS Detection for E-Health Applications

Compression Type

Method

Year

# Records Used

BCR

PRD

Refs

Lossless

Simple Predictor/Huffman Coding

2009

N/R

1.92

0

12

Delta Predictor/Rice Golomb Coding

2011

N/R

2.38

0

10

Adaptive Predictor/Huffman Coding

2013

N/R

2.43

0

11

Slope Predictor/Fixed-length Packaging

2013

N/R

2.25

0

13

Method I

2015

All records in MIT-BIH Arrhythmia DB

2.28

0

8

Lossy

Simultaneous Orthogonal Matching Pursuit

2011

One record from MIT-BIH Arrhythmia DB

7.23

2.57

58

Compressive Sensing

2011

All records in MIT-BIH Arrhythmia DB

3.44

9

59

Wavelet Transform

2012

10 records from MIT-BIH Arrhythmia DB

4.0

1.66

60

Nonuniform Binary Matrices

2012

N/R

5.0

8.58

61

Compressive Sensing

2012

3 records from MIT-BIH Arrhythmia DB

2.5

2.6

62

Encoding with Modified Thresholding

2013

4 records from MIT-BIH Arrhythmia DB

5.4

2.7

63

Compressive Sampling

2013

One record from MIT-BIH Arrhythmia DB

2.5

9

64

Method II

2015

11 records from MIT-BIH Arrhythmia DB

6.4

3.75

9

Method III

2017

All records in MIT-BIH Arrhythmia DB

4.5

0.53

  1. BCR stands for bit compression ratio, PRD stands for percentage root-mean-square difference, N/R stands for Not Reported, and the symbol ≈ means nearly equal.