Patent ID: 7941205

Claim:
A medical system for processing electrocardiogram (EKG) signals, the medical system comprising: a receiving module configured to receive a plurality J of recorded EKG signals X j from a plurality of EKG sensors, one of the recorded EKG signals per one of the EKG sensors; a computing module configured to separate the received signals using independent component analysis to produce a plurality I of statistically independent separated signals Y i ; a display module configured to display the separated signals; a database storing a plurality of EKG signal triggers and one or more corresponding diagnoses, wherein at least one of the EKG signal triggers is based on history of the patient during an observation period; and a matching module configured to match the separated signals with one or more of the stored EKG signal triggers, the one or more of the stored EKG signal triggers comprising the at least one of the EKG signal triggers based on history of the patient during the observation period.