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Study of Energy-Efficient Biomedical Data Compression Methods in the Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) and Remote Healthcare Networks

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Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) is a wireless network of short-range communication protocols for remote healthcare monitoring with the possibility of giving freedom of human body movements. Sensor nodes (motes) are usually located under the skin, implanted deep in the body, or ingested, as in the rare case of smart pills for medical and non-medical usage. Since the necessary connections of wearable and implantable devices are wireless, and the components use low batteries, processing and transferring the critical data can deplete the nodes’ power. In most cases, it is impossible to exchange or re-power batteries. Holter monitoring, loop recorders, and wireless capsule endoscopy are some of the WBAN’s applications for saving and transferring medical data. Wireless capsule endoscopy is the application for image transmission in WBANs, and the image compression in common is a specific segment of capsule endoscopy. Since the better compression of images increases the frame rate and typically improves the diagnosis process, selecting the compression algorithm should be relevant. The considerable scope of this comprehensive study pays attention to the various biomedical data compression approaches in WBANs. This paper focuses on power-efficient schemes of remote healthcare networks. In this survey article, the energy-based biomedical data compression approaches of WBANs and remote healthcare networks are accurately classified based on lossy, lossless, and hybrid techniques; later, a comprehensive comparison of each specific method’s power consumption is presented.

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Ahmadzadeh, S. Study of Energy-Efficient Biomedical Data Compression Methods in the Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) and Remote Healthcare Networks. Int J Wireless Inf Networks 30, 252–269 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10776-023-00599-6

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