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20 lines
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This program is designed to convert scanned 12-lead
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electrocardiograms into PNG format and a web-friendly
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image size. It assumes that the electrocardiogram (ECG)
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is printed with a black line on white paper with a red grid.
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The problems this program is designed to solve are (1) an
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ECG scanned at relatively high resolution (300 to 600 dots
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per inch) imposes a substantial load on the web browser
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because it contains about 6 million pixels which may require
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18 to 24 MB of RAM to store for display. Also, (2) typical
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scanners convert a clean paper ECG into a multitude of colors,
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include green and blue. The resulting file cannot be compressed
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efficiently because it does not contain as much redundancy, and
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thus takes more time to transmit over low-speed network connections.
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WWW: http://www.cardiothink.com/downloads/ecg2png/
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Author: Lawrence Widman <widman@cardiothink.com>
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- Will <andrews@technologist.com>
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