简介:InviewoftheshortcomesofconventionalElectroCardioGram(ECG)compressionalgo-rithms,suchashighcomplexityofoperationanddistortionofreconstructedsignal,anewECGcompressionencodingalgorithmbasedonSetPartitioningInHierarchicalTrees(SPIHT)isbroughtoutafterstudyingtheintegerliftingschemewavelettransformindetail.Theproposedalgorithmmodifieszero-treestructureofSPIHT,establishessingledimensionalwaveletcoefficienttreeofECGsignalsandenhancestheefficiencyofSPIHT-encodingbydistributingbitsrationally,improvingzero-treesetandamelioratingclassifyingmethod.Forthisimprovedalgorithm,floating-pointcom-putationandstorageareleftoutofconsiderationanditiseasytobeimplementedbyhardwareandsoftware.Experimentalresultsprovethatthenewalgorithmhasadmirablefeaturesoflowcomplexity,highspeedandgoodperformanceinsignalreconstruction.Highcompressionratioisobtainedwithhighsignalfidelityaswell.