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<H1 ALIGN=CENTER>WFDB Programmer's Guide</H1>
<P ALIGN=CENTER><STRONG>Tenth Edition<BR>
(Revised and with corrections for WFDB library version VERSION)<BR>
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George B. Moody<BR>
Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology<BR></STRONG></P><P>
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Copyright ©1980-2014 George B. Moody.
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The most recent versions of the software described in this guide are freely
downloadable from <A HREF="http://www.physionet.org/">PhysioNet</A>. For
further information, write to:
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<BLOCKQUOTE>George B. Moody<BR>
MIT Room E25-505A<BR>
Cambridge, MA 02139<BR>
USA<BR>
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A <A HREF="wpg.pdf">PDF</A> version of this guide is available. The latest
version can be downloaded from <A HREF="http://physionet.org/">PhysioNet</A>.
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Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this
guide provided that the copyright notice and this permission notice are
preserved on all copies.
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Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this
guide under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided also that the
entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a
permission notice identical to this one.
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Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this guide
into another language, under the above conditions for modified versions.
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<H2><A HREF="wpg_btoc.htm">Brief Table of Contents</A></H2>
<H2><A HREF="wpg_toc.htm">Table of Contents</A></H2>
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<H2>Other links of interest</H2>
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<LI><A HREF="http://www.physionet.org/">PhysioNet</A><BR>
PhysioNet offers free access via the web to large collections of
recorded physiologic signals and related open-source software.
The PhysioNet web site is a public service of the
<A HREF="http://physionet.org/resource.shtml">PhysioNet Resource</a>
funded by the <a href="http://www.nih.gov/" target="other">National
Institutes of Health</a>'s <a href="http://www.nibib.nih.gov"
target="other">NIBIB</a> and <a href="http://www.nigms.nih.gov"
target="other">NIGMS</a>.
The most recent version of this guide, and of the software it
describes, may be obtained from PhysioNet.
<LI><I><A HREF="../wag/wag.htm">WFDB Applications Guide</A></I>
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Includes <TT>man</TT> pages for the applications included in the WFDB Software
Package and specifications for file formats supported by the WFDB library.
Detailed installation instructions for the WFDB Software Package are included
in an appendix, and a second appendix discusses how the performance of ECG
analyzers can be formally evaluated using standard reference databases and the
standard evaluation tools included in the WFDB Software Package.
<LI><I><A HREF="../wug/wug.htm">WAVE User's Guide</A></I><BR>
A comprehensive tutorial, with extensive reference material, for
<STRONG>WAVE</STRONG>, an interactive waveform browser with facilities for
annotation editing and control of external analysis programs.
<STRONG>WAVE</STRONG> runs on PCs under the free GNU/Linux and FreeBSD
operating systems, and under MS-Windows with Cygwin/X, as well as on Mac OS X
and on SPARC-based systems under SunOS or Solaris.
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<A HREF="mailto:wfdb@physionet.org">PhysioNet (<tt>wfdb@physionet.org</tt>)</A>
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