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ECG Database Programmer's Guide

Ninth Edition
(Revised and with corrections for DB library version 9.7)
24 April 1997



George B. Moody
Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
Biomedical Engineering Center

Copyright ©1980-1997 Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Other links of interest

• The MIT-BIH Database Distribution Home Page
  Information about CD-ROM databases of ECGs and other physiologic signals, and related software. This is the source for the software described in this guide.
• ECG Database Applications Guide
  Includes man pages for the applications included in the DB Software Package, specifications for file formats supported by the DB library. Detailed installation instructions for the DB 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 DB Software Package.
• WAVE User's Guide
  A comprehensive tutorial, with extensive reference material, for WAVE, an interactive waveform browser with facilities for annotation editing and control of external analysis programs. WAVE runs on PCs under the free Linux operating system, and on SPARC-based systems under SunOS or Solaris.