A novel technique for real-time electroencephalogram (EEG) compression is proposed in this paper. This technique makes use of the redundancy between the different frequency subbands present in EEG segments of one channel. It uses discrete wavelet transform (DWT) and dynamic reference lists to compute and send the decorrelated subband coefficients. Set partitioning in hierarchical trees (SPIHT) is also used as source coder. Experimental results showed that the proposed method can not only compress EEG channels in one dimension (1- D), but also detect seizure-like activity. A diagnostics-oriented performance assessment was performed to evaluate the performance of both the compression and detection capabilities of the proposed method. In this paper, we show that the algorithm can positively detect seizure sections in the recordings at bitrates down to 2 bits per sample.

A novel technique for Electroencephalogram (EEG) compression is proposed in this article. This technique makes use of the inter-channel redundancy present between different EEG channels of the same recording and the intra-channel redundancy between the different samples of a specific channel. It uses Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) and Set partitioning in hierarchical trees (SPIHT) in 2-D to code the EEG channels. Smoothness transforms are added in order to guarantee good performance of SPIHT in 2-D. Experimental results show that this technique is able to provide low distortion values for high compression ratios (CRs). In addition, performance results of this method do not vary a lot between different patients which proves the stability of the method when used with recordings of different characteristics.

In this paper, a method is proposed to compress multichannel electroencephalographic (EEG) signals in a scalable fashion. Correlation between EEG channels is exploited through clustering using a k-means method. Representative channels for each of the clusters are encoded individually while other channels are encoded differentially, i.e., with respect to their respective cluster representatives. The compression is performed using the embedded zero-tree wavelet encoding adapted to 1-D signals. Simulations show that the scalable features of the scheme lead to a flexible quality/rate tradeoff, without requiring detailed EEG signal modeling.

A novel technique for Electroencephalogram (EEG) compression is proposed in this article. This technique models the intrinsic dependency inherent between the different EEG channels. It is based on dipole fitting that is usually used in order to find a solution to the classic problems in EEG analysis:inverse and forward problems. The suggested compression system uses dipole fitting as a first building block to provide an approximation of the recorded signals. Then, (based on a smoothness factor,) appropriate coding techniques are suggested to compress the residuals of the fitting process. Results show that this technique works well for different types of recordings and is even able to provide nearlossless compression for event-related potentials.

Social media has become one of the main sources of news and events due to its ability to disseminate and propagate information very fast and to a large population. Social media platforms are widely accessible to the population making it difficult to extract relevant information from the huge amount of posted data. In our study, we propose an algorithm that automatically detects events using strong sentiment classification and appropriate clustering techniques. We focus our study on a specific type of events that triggers strong sentiment among the public. Results show that the suggested methodology is able to identify important events, such as a mass shooting and plane crash, using a generalized and simple approach.