Web-based architecture for ECG interpretation service providing automated and manual diagnostics

The ECG interpretation process is currently fully automated and consists of various signal processing, pattern recognition and decisive procedures. The worldwide unified interpretation guidelines are differentially implemented by software manufacturers. Moreover, the most sophisticated algorithms are rarely used, since the corresponding medical cases are relatively infrequent. Our work focuses on designing all the advanced ECG interpretation routines as distributed web services. The key idea is to extend the interoperability by multiple method-specialized complementary interpretation services. The proposed architecture service concentrates the specialized processing tasks and, apart from the medical advantages, is a reasonable method preserving the inventor's intellectual property rights.