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The role of compression in large scale data transfer and storage of typical biomedical signals at hospitals
Department of Biomedical Engineering and Health Systems, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Huddinge, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8359-5745
University of Borås, Faculty of Textiles, Engineering and Business. University of Borås, Faculty of Caring Science, Work Life and Social Welfare. Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Clinical Physiology, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Sweden; Department of Textile Technology, University of Borås, Sweden; Department of Medical Technology - Management and Development, Karolinska University Hospital, Sweden..ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6995-967X
Department of Biomedical Engineering and Health Systems, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Huddinge, Sweden; Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden; Department of Clinical Physiology, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Sweden.
2023 (English)In: Health Informatics Journal, ISSN 1460-4582, E-ISSN 1741-2811, Vol. 29, no 4Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

In modern hospitals, monitoring patients' vital signs and other biomedical signals is standard practice. With the advent of data-driven healthcare, Internet of medical things, wearable technologies, and machine learning, we expect this to accelerate and to be used in new and promising ways, including early warning systems and precision diagnostics. Hence, we see an ever-increasing need for retrieving, storing, and managing the large amount of biomedical signal data generated. The popularity of standards, such as HL7 FHIR for interoperability and data transfer, have also resulted in their use as a data storage model, which is inefficient. This article raises concern about the inefficiency of using FHIR for storage of biomedical signals and instead highlights the possibility of a sustainable storage based on data compression. Most reported efforts have focused on ECG signals; however, many other typical biomedical signals are understudied. In this article, we are considering arterial blood pressure, photoplethysmography, and respiration. We focus on simple lossless compression with low implementation complexity, low compression delay, and good compression ratios suitable for wide adoption. Our results show that it is easy to obtain a compression ratio of 2.7:1 for arterial blood pressure, 2.9:1 for photoplethysmography, and 4.1:1 for respiration. 

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2023. Vol. 29, no 4
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biomedical signals, large-scale health data, compression, downsampling, variable length coding
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Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
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Textiles and Fashion (General)
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-31041DOI: 10.1177/14604582231213846ISI: 001117255200001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85179305751OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hb-31041DiVA, id: diva2:1820563
Available from: 2023-12-18 Created: 2023-12-18 Last updated: 2025-02-07Bibliographically approved

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