Inspec keywords: electrocardiography; patient monitoring; sorting; medical signal detection; pattern matching; medical signal processing; abstracting; diseases; decision making; data mining; signal classification; medical information systems

Other keywords: heartbeat pattern similarity ranking; MIT-BIH arrhythmia database; HeartSearcher; patient ranking; heartbeat classification volume reduction; clinical decision support; abstraction; similar arrhythmia patient identification; mobile phone; similar arrhythmia patient search; regular expression; patient typical heartbeat pattern summarisation; Holter monitor; long-term electrocardiogram data acquisition; arrhythmia detection

Subjects: Knowledge engineering techniques; Electrodiagnostics and other electrical measurement techniques; Digital signal processing; Combinatorial mathematics; Combinatorial mathematics; Data handling techniques; Bioelectric signals; Electrical activity in neurophysiological processes; Medical administration; Information analysis and indexing; Signal processing and detection; Biology and medical computing