A Novel ECG Waves Detection Followed by a New Compression Technique Based on Fourier Series Modeling for up to 26 Days Holter Monitor

Abstract

This paper presents a new concept for electrocardiogram (ECG) signals compression based on Fourier series modeling. The goal of the compression is to enable the ECG Holter to record and store ECG data for several days instead of just 24 hours while maintaining all the features of the signals. This proposed method can be used to record up to 26 days when using Fourier series of 4th degree, and 21 days when using Fourier series of 5th degree, whith high accuracy and a mean square error (RMSE) of approximately 0.001, which is considered extremely low and satisfactory.