An Experimental Study on Transferring Data-Driven Image Compressive Sensing to Bioelectric Signals

Abstract

The emerging area of bioelectric signal compressive sensing(CS) has shown great potential in health care applications. However, improving the reconstruction accuracy of compressively sensed bioelectric signals remains a challenging problem. In recent years, data-driven image CS methods have achieved significant improvements in reconstruction accuracy over conventional model-based image CS methods. In this paper, we conduct an experimental study on transferring existing data-driven image CS methods to bioelectric signals. Through our investigation of five critical factors affecting the reconstruction performance of bioelectric signals, we conclude that existing data-driven image CS methods can be transferred to ECG signals with high reconstruction accuracy. Our experimental results show that transferred data-driven image CS methods can achieve up to 8.08-2.73 SNR improvement over the reference method on ECG signal reconstruction across compression ratios of 2-8x.