Abstract
Zero-Compression Method (ZCM) is a simple and effective algorithm that can be used to compress the digital data which consists of a significant numbers of zeros. The method has the ability to encode and decode the data with high processing speed and it has the ability to recover the stored data with minimum error and minimum storage area. On the other hand, the ZCM may have a wide practical value in storing data extracted from ECG signals. The method is implemented for various types of signals such as textual data, wavelet subsignals, randomly generated signals and speech signals. In this paper the coding and decoding algorithm is presented.