A Dedicated Diagnostic Distortion Measure for the Evaluation of Ecg Signal Compression Techniques Adopted for Remote Diagnosis of Cardiovascular Diseases

Abstract

In the current century diseases of the heart, brain and blood vessels, termed Cardiovascular Diseases (CVDs), represent the main death reasons [1-2]. The CVDs can be diagnosed through the usage of the features extracted from the P-waves, PR-intervals, QRS-complexes, ST-segments, T-and U-waves. The irregularity of beat phases is generally called arrhythmia and some arrhythmias are very dangerous for patients. The types of arrhythmias that can be diagnosed using the Electrocardiogram (ECG) features include: sinus bradycardia, ventricular tachycardia, sinus arrhythmia, atrial premature contraction. In addition, right and left bundle branch block, atrial fibrillation and flutter, heart block as well as coronary artery diseases such as STand non ST-elevation myocardial infarction can be diagnosed using ECG signal features. 159 Mohammed M. Abo-Zahhad et al., A Dedicated Diagnostic Distortion Measure for the ……… techniques oriented for CVDs diagnosing. The price paid for the usage of 3DM as a good performance metric is the computational complexity in calculating the diagnostic features. However, the calculated features can be adopted for diagnosing purposes.