Experience with an automated ECG interpretation system

Based on our experience with mass computerized ECG interpretation, some of the more common disagreements between computer and cardiologist are presented. Computer interpretations are usually reliable and accurate except in border-line cases, in tracings with much electrical noise and in those in which the transition between different segments of the QRS complex are not well demarcated. A computerized ECG interpretation system can help the cardiologist by providing him with all measurements required and most of the diagnostic statements, so that he has only to review and validate the processed tracings.