Compressão de sinais eletromiográficos baseada em técnicas bidimensionais

Abstract

Traditionally, electromyographic signals are compressed to one-dimensional techniques, which are specifically developed for this purpose. However, some studies have shown that the compression of biological signals such as images, via its pre-processing and rearrangement on a two-dimensional array, can lead to good results. The present work an investigation of the compression electromyographic signals like images, three main contributions: the use of new encoders, the development of new pre-processing techniques and modification of the coding core of a specific compressor, so that existing redundancies are better exploited. With respect to the pre-processing of the signal, two new techniques are introduced: ordering a percentage difference and targeting similarity which have the potential to increase the performance of encoded pictures. Optionally for compression of electromyographic signals, propose to the high efficiency video coding encoder, which features state of the art in video compression. Furthermore, an investigation of the paradigm that uses recurrence multiscale standards, known as multidimensional multiscale parser, is also presented. In summary, the encoder adapts to working with the biological signal by replacing its prediction techniques to improve the exploitation of redundancy, the result of which is termed Bio-MMP. The experiments performed with real electromyographic signals show that the proposed techniques are effective, providing better results than the state of the art in the literature.