| WFDB Software Package |
Over 70 open-source applications for signal processing, analysis, and more, all built on a stable and easy-to-use library that can be incorporated into your own software. Latest update: Wednesday, 19 November 2008 (summary here). |
| 18 November 2008 | TWAnalyser is open-source software for detecting and measuring T-wave alternans in the ECG, originally developed for the recently-concluded PhysioNet/CinC Challenge 2008. Detailed notes on installing and using TWAnalyser are now available. |
| 30 October 2008 | The journal Chaos will publish a special issue containing
discussion of the question "Is the normal heart rate chaotic?" in
2009. To provide a common focus for investigation of this question, a
collection of fifteen 20-24 hour RR interval time
series derived from three PhysioBank ECG databases is now
available for study.
The Long Term AF Database, a collection of 84 two-lead 24-hour ECG recording of subjects with paroxysmal and sustained atrial fibrillation, is now available. |
| 22 September 2008 | Congratulations to the winners of the PhysioNet/CinC Challenge 2008 on the subject of T-wave alternans. Final results are now available: scores, reference rankings of the Challenge 2008 data set, and the open source software contributed by participants in the open source division of the Challenge. |
| 15 May 2008 | A collection of multiparameter recordings created to study stress recognition in automobile drivers has been contributed to PhysioNet. The database contains recordings from healthy volunteers taken while they were driving on a prescribed route including city streets and highways in and around Boston. Signals recorded include ECG, EMG, GSR, and respiration. |
| 1 May 2008 | The St. Petersburg Institute of Cardiological Technics 12-lead Arrhythmia Database has been contributed to PhysioNet by its creators. It consists of 75 half-hour recordings extracted from 32 Holter records from patients undergoing tests for coronary artery disease, with reference annotation files containing over 175,000 beat annotations in all. |
| 17 March 2008 | The PhysioNet/Computers in Cardiology Challenge 2008 is underway. The topic of this, the ninth open challenge in our annual series, is detection and quantification of T-wave alternans. |
| 26 February 2008 | A newly posted tutorial describes How to obtain PhysioBank data in text form. |
| 25 February 2008 | PhysioBank now includes a large database of Gait in Parkinson's Disease, a collection of multichannel recordings from force sensors beneath the feet of 93 patients with Parkinson's Disease, and 73 healthy controls, collected from three studies. |
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