Signal agnostic compressive sensing for Body Area Networks: comparison of signal reconstructions

Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2012:2012:4497-500. doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2012.6346966.

Abstract

Compressive sensing is a lossy compression technique that is potentially very suitable for use in power constrained sensor nodes and Body Area Networks as the compression process has a low computational complexity. This paper investigates the reconstruction performance of compressive sensing when applied to EEG, ECG, EOG and EMG signals; establishing the performance of a signal agnostic compressive sensing strategy that could be used in a Body Area Network monitoring all of these. The results demonstrate that the EEG, ECG and EOG can all be reconstructed satisfactorily, although large inter- and intra- subject variations are present. EMG signals are not well reconstructed. Compressive sensing may therefore also find use as a novel method for the identification of EMG artefacts in other electro-physiological signals.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms*
  • Artifacts*
  • Computer Communication Networks*
  • Data Compression / methods*
  • Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted / methods*
  • Electrodiagnosis / methods*
  • Humans
  • Monitoring, Ambulatory / methods*
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Sensitivity and Specificity
  • Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted*