the aim of this study is to evaluate how far lempel-ziv complexity (lzc) of the binary symbolic sequences resulting from static or dynamic transformation (partitioning first-order difference) of the short-term electrocardiogram (ecg) signals (only 2 seconds duration) has the  potential in discriminating normal and ventricular tachycardia/ventricular fibrillation (vt/vf) subjects. the statistica...

the aim of this study is to show that the measures derived from electrocardiogram (ecg) signals many a time perform better than the same measures obtained from heart rate (hr) signals. a comparison was made to investigate how far the nonlinear symbolic dynamics approach helps to characterize the nonlinear properties of ecg signals and hr signals, and thereby discriminate between normal and cong...

The Ziv-Lempel complexity is a well-known complexity measure. In our paper we consider the Ziv-Lempel complexity for p'eriodic sequences as well as for pseudorandom number sequences. Further on, we will look at i ts cryptographic significance and compare it with other complexity measures such as the linear complexity.

In this paper, a natural extension of the Lempel-Ziv complexity for several finitetime sequences, defined on finite size alphabets is proposed. Some results on the defined joint Lempel-Ziv complexity are given, as well as properties in connection with the Lempel-Ziv complexity of the individual sequences. Also, some links with Shannon entropies are exhibited and, by analogy, some derived quanti...

This paper describes the Lempel-Ziv dimension (Hausdorff like dimension inspired in the LZ78 parsing), its fundamental properties and relation with Hausdorff dimension. It is shown that in the case of individual infinite sequences, the Lempel-Ziv dimension matches with the asymptotical Lempel-Ziv compression ratio. This fact is used to describe results on Lempel-Ziv compression in terms of dime...