Sources

This section is a compendium of sources for databases and related materials that may be useful to readers of this guide. If you have installed the DB Software Package, you may find an updated version of this list in `SOURCES.TXT', in the `db' directory that was created during the installation. Please send any corrections to the author (first address below).

ECG Database Programmer's Guide (this guide)

ECG Database Applications Guide

WAVE User's Guide

MIT-BIH Arrhythmia Database CD-ROM

MIT-BIH Arrhythmia Database Directory

MIT-BIH Polysomnographic Database CD-ROM

MIT-BIH Polysomnographic Database Directory

Samples of Physiologic Databases CD-ROM

Software for Physiologic Databases with Samples CD-ROM

MIMIC Database CD-ROMs

MIT-BIH Database Distribution
MIT Room 20A-113
77 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02139 USA

e-mail:	dbdist@hstbme.mit.edu, george@hstbme.mit.edu
WWW: http://ecg.mit.edu
telephone: +1 617 253 7424
telefax: +1 617 253 2514

European ST-T Database CD-ROM

European ST-T Database Directory

VALE Database Directory

National Research Council (CNR) Institute of Clinical Physiology
Computer Laboratory
via Trieste, 41
56100 PISA, Italy

e-mail:	taddei@anemone.ifc.pi.cnr.it
telephone: +39 50 502771
telefax: +39 50 589038

AHA Database for Evaluation of Ventricular Arrhythmia Detectors

ECRI
5200 Butler Pike
Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462 USA

e-mail: ecri@shrsys.hslc.org
telephone: +1 215 825 6000

MGH/Marquette Foundation Waveform Database CD-ROMs

Anaesthesia/Bioengineering Unit
Massachusetts General Hospital
Fruit St.
Boston, MA 02114 USA

e-mail: cooper@etherdome.mgh.harvard.edu
telephone: +1 617 726 8824

This is a large database of multi-channel recordings (3 ECG leads, radial arterial, pulmonary arterial, and central venous pressure, respiration, and CO2), which has been issued on 10 CD-ROMs.

American National Standard for Ambulatory Electrocardiographs (ANSI/AAMI EC38--1994)

AAMI Recommended Practice for Testing and Reporting Performance Results of Ventricular

Arrhythmia Detection Algorithms (AAMI ECAR--1987)

Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation
3330 Washington Boulevard, Suite 400
Arlington, VA 22201 USA

telephone: +1 703 525 4890
telefax: +1 703 276 0793

Computers in Cardiology

WWW: http://www.cinc.org/

CIC is the major scientific meeting at which current research in ECG signal processing and modelling is discussed; the proceedings of the conference are probably the single best source of information in print about these topics. CIC conferences have taken place annually since 1974, usually in September; in even-numbered years, they are convened in North America, and in Europe in odd-numbered years. The deadline for submission of abstracts is 1 May each year. Proceedings of the conferences are published by the IEEE Computer Society Press, and usually appear about 3 months after the date of the conference. CIC will be in Lund (Sweden) in 1997.

Proceedings of Computers in Cardiology (ISSN 0276-6574)

IEEE Customer Service
445 Hoes Lane
P.O. Box 1331
Piscataway, NJ 08855-1331 USA

e-mail: customer.service@ieee.org
WWW: http://www.ieee.org/bkstr.html
telephone: 1 800 678 IEEE (USA and Canada) or +1 908 981 0060
telefax: +1 908 981 9667

GNU emacs

gcc (the GNU portable C/C++ compiler)

ghostscript

GNU tar

GNU gzip (free and improved replacement for `compress')

Larry Wall's `patch' program, with GNU revisions

GNU groff, gtbl, and related text formatting utilities

GNU info and makeinfo (standalone hypertext browser and formatter)

Free Software Foundation
675 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02139 USA

e-mail: gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu
WWW: http://www.gnu.ai.mit.edu
telephone: +1 617 876 3296

GNU software is available on CD-ROM or tape from the address above, and is also freely available by anonymous FTP from:

prep.ai.mit.edu
wuarchive.wustl.edu
ftp.cs.columbia.edu
gatekeeper.dec.com
labrea.stanford.edu
ftp.uu.net
ftp.cs.ubc.ca
ftp.unicamp.br
archie.au
ftp.technion.ac.il
ftp.sun.ac.za
ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de
ftp.sunet.se
hp4nl.nluug.nl
ftp.funet.fi
ftp.denet.dk
ugle.unit.no
ftp.eunet.ch
irisa.irisa.fr
ftp.ieunet.ie
archive.eu.net
cair.kaist.ac.kr
ftp.nectec.or.th
utsun.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp
ftp.cs.titech.ac.jp

and many other archive sites. Please support the FSF with a donation if you use GNU software.

TeX for UNIX systems

This software is available by anonymous FTP from CTAN (Comprehensive TeX Archive Network) mirrors, including ftp.shsu.edu, ftp.tex.ac.uk, and ftp.uni-stuttgart.de. Many of the sources of GNU software (above) also make TeX, etc. available. CTAN is indexed on the World Wide Web (one such index is `http://jasper.ora.com/ctan.html'). The UNIX TeX distribution is also distributed on CD-ROM and in other tape formats by the Free Software Foundation (address above) and others. It is also included with most Linux distributions (see below). Several commercial implementations of TeX for MS-DOS are widely available.

General information on TeX

TeX Users Group
1850 Union St., #1637
San Francisco, CA 94123 USA

WWW: http://www.tug.org
e-mail: tug@tug.org
telephone: +1 415 982 8449
telefax: +1 415 982 8559

X11R6 (the X Window System, Version 11, Release 6)

XView

The Open Group
11 Cambridge Center
Cambridge, MA 02142 USA

WWW: http://www.x.org/

These packages are freely available by anonymous FTP from ftp.x.org and other archive sites. X11R6 sources are also available on tape from the Free Software Foundation (address above).

Linux

Linux is a POSIX-compliant reimplementation of the UNIX operating system, written by Linus Torvalds and a cast of thousands. It runs on Intel 386, 486, and Pentium PCs, among others. For information about Linux, visit the web site of the Linux Documentation Project:

WWW: http://sunsite.unc.edu/linux/

Linux is freely available by anonymous FTP in source and binary form from many sites, including:

tsx-11.mit.edu
sunsite.unc.edu
ftp.funet.fi
net.tamu.edu
ftp.mcc.ac.uk
src.doc.ic.ac.uk
fgb1.fgb.mw.tu-muenchen.de
ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de
ftp.dfv.rwth-aachen.de
ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de
ftp.Germany.EU.net
ftp.ibp.fr
kirk.bond.edu.au
ftp.uu.net
wuarchive.wustl.edu
ftp.win.tue.nl
ftp.stack.urc.tue.nl
srawgw.sra.co.jp
cair.kaist.ac.kr
ftp.denet.dk
NCTUCCCA.edu.tw
nic.switch.ch
monu1.monash.edu.au
cnuce_arch.cnr.it

There are also many low-cost (typically US$10 to US$30) distributions of Linux on CD-ROMs widely available. Among the more popular are:

Red Hat Linux
3203 Yorktown Ave., Suite 123
Durham, NC 27713 USA

e-mail: sales@redhat.com
WWW: http://www.redhat.com/
telephone: 1 800 546 7274 (USA and Canada) or +1 919 572 6500
telefax: +1 919 572 6726

InfoMagic
11950 N. Hwy 89
Flagstaff, AZ 86004 USA

e-mail: questions@infomagic.com
WWW: http://www.infomagic.com/
telephone: 1 800 800 6613 (USA and Canada) or +1 520 526 9565
telefax: +1 520 526 9573

Walnut Creek CD-ROM
4041 Pike Lane, Suite E
Concord, CA 94520 USA

e-mail: info@cdrom.com
WWW: http://www.cdrom.com/
telephone: 1 800 786 9907 (USA and Canada) or +1 510 674 0783
telefax: +1 510 674 0821

Caldera, Inc.
633 South 550 East
Provo, UT 84606 USA

e-mail: info@caldera.com
WWW: http://www.caldera.com/
telephone: +1 801 377 7687
telefax: +1 801 377 8752

S.u.S.E. GmbH
e-mail: kfr@suse.de
WWW: http://www.suse.de/

See ads in Byte, Dr. Dobb's Journal, and similar magazines for other sources.

Borland C++

Turbo C/C++

Borland International, Inc.
1800 Green Hills Road
P.O. Box 660001
Scotts Valley, CA 95067 USA

WWW: http://www.borland.com/
telephone: +1 408 438 5300

Microsoft C/C++

MS-DOS with Microsoft CD-ROM extensions

Microsoft Corporation
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052 USA

WWW: http://www.microsoft.com/
telephone: +1 206 936 8661

Versions of MS-DOS earlier than 6.0 did not include `Microsoft CD-ROM extensions' (`mscdex.exe', an MS-DOS TSR that intercepts read requests directed to a CD-ROM drive, thus making an ISO 9660 or High Sierra file system appear to be a read-only MS-DOS file system). If you have an earlier version of MS-DOS, either upgrade to MS-DOS 6.x or later, or obtain `mscdex.exe' from your CD-ROM drive vendor. Be sure to specify which version of MS-DOS you are using, since newer versions of MS-DOS are not compatible with older versions of `mscdex.exe' (MS-DOS 3.x requires `mscdex' 2.00 or later, MS-DOS 4.x requires `mscdex' 2.10 or later, and MS-DOS 5.0 requires `mscdex' 2.20 or later). Microsoft Windows 95 (Chicago) does not require `mscdex', since it incorporates the functions of `mscdex' into the operating system.

CD-ROM drives

These are now available from most PC and UNIX workstation vendors. For the CD-ROMs listed above, the only requirement is that the drive and the software supplied with it must be compatible with your operating system and with ISO 9660 format CD-ROMs. All currently available drives for PCs and UNIX workstations meet this requirement. High-speed drives (4x, 6x, and faster) are now cheaper than single-speed drives were three years ago; for use with signal databases, these high-speed drives are well worth the small incremental cost. For users of UNIX versions that date from 1993 and earlier, it may be worthwhile to upgrade to newer software that supports Rock Ridge extensions to ISO 9660 format. Our recent (1995 and later) CD-ROMs are written in this format, which appears identical to ISO 9660 format when read on a PC or an older UNIX system, but supports full UNIX file naming semantics on Rock Ridge aware systems.

Microstar DAP 1200 and 2400 analog interface boards for PCs

Microstar Laboratories
2265 116th Avenue N.E.
Bellevue, WA 98004 USA

telephone: +1 425 453 2345
telefax: +1 425 453 3199
WWW: http://www.mstarlabs.com/

Web browsers

The most popular Web browsers may be downloaded by anonymous FTP.

Netscape
FTP: ftp.netscape.com
WWW: http://www.netscape.com

Mosaic
FTP: ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu
WWW: http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software

NCSA Mosaic is available in both source and precompiled form, and is freely usable by anyone. Netscape is available in precompiled form only, and is free for academic use or for limited-period evaluations; information about commercial and other non-academic licensing is available on Netscape's Web site.

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