The invention is directed to signal processing techniques for electrograms
or other biomedical signals. In particular, the signal processing
techniques make use of wavelet transformation of the electrograms. For
example, an electrogram can be represented by a finite set of wavelets
which comprise a decomposition of the electrogram in the scale-time
domain. In accordance with the invention, wavelet analysis techniques can
be used to distinguish specific phenomena in electrograms. For example,
wavelet analysis can be used to distinguish between occurrences of large
amplitude steep deflections, small amplitude steep deflections, and large
amplitude shallow deflections of an electrogram.