[Data reduction, smoothing and base line correction preceding an automatic evaluation of ECG signals (author's...

In storing electronically digital data of signals, too many items are used. Especially the great number of data produced in the analogue-digital-conversion of the ECG leads to serious problems in long distance transmission and storage. It is proposed to described such ECG signals through polynominal fragments, to which such a position across the noise-level distorted data is given that at the same time the data are levelled in a flexible manner. Based on these calculated reduced data, shape recognition problems can be solved more easily. As an example, a suggestion is given to construct the isoelectric segment of an ECG.