file: SOURCES.TXT G. Moody 8 February 1992 Last revised: 24 May 1997 This file is a compendium of sources for materials referenced within this package. The information below is correct as of the date above. Please send any corrections to me (first address below). _______________________________________________________________________________ ECG Database Programmer's 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 mail: MIT-BIH Database Distribution MIT Room 20A-113 77 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA 02139 USA e-mail: dbdist@hstbme.mit.edu george@diana.mit.edu WWW: http://ecg.mit.edu telephone: +1 617 253 7424 telefax: +1 617 253 2514 See http://ecg.mit.edu/order-form.html, or the file `ORDER.4M' in this directory, for information about obtaining any of the above. MIMIC Database CD-ROMs Write to the address above for information about availability of these items. _______________________________________________________________________________ European ST-T Database CD-ROM European ST-T Database Directory VALE Database Directory mail: 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 mail: 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 mail: 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. _______________________________________________________________________________ AAMI Recommended Practice for Testing and Reporting Performance Results of Ventricular Arrhythmia Detection Algorithms (Publication AAMI ECAR-1987) American National Standard for Ambulatory Electrocardiographs (Publication ANSI/AAMI EC38-1994) mail: 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) mail: 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) gnuplot 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) mail: 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 ftp.kpc.com ftp.hawaii.edu f.ms.uky.edu ftp.digex.net wuarchive.wustl.edu col.hp.com ftp.cs.columbia.edu vixen.cso.uiuc.edu mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu jaguar.utah.edu gatekeeper.dec.com labrea.stanford.edu archive.cis.ohio-state.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.informatik.rwth-aachen.de germany.eu.net isy.liu.se ftp.stacken.kth.se ftp.luth.se ftp.sunet.se hp4nl.nluug.nl ftp.win.tue.nl ftp.funet.fi ftp.denet.dk ugle.unit.no ftp.eunet.ch nic.switch.ch irisa.irisa.fr ftp.univ-lyon1.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, LaTeX, and dvips 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: mail: 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 mail: The Open Group 11 Cambridge Center Cambridge, MA 02142 USA WWW: http://www.x.org/ These software packages are freely available by anonymous FTP from ftp.x.org and other archive sites. X11R6 sources are also available on CD-ROM or 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 For a list of alternate sites, get http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/MIRRORS. 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++ mail: 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 MS Windows mail: 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 version required `mscdex' version 3.x 2.00 or later 4.x 2.10 or later 5.0 2.20 or later _______________________________________________________________________________ CD-ROM drives When I wrote the first version of this document, in 1989, I had to explain what a CD-ROM is. How times have changed! CD-ROM drives 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 a few 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 mail: Microstar Laboratories 2265 116th Avenue N.E. Bellevue, WA 98004 USA telephone: +1 206 453 2345 fax: +1 206 453 3199 WWW: http://www.mstarlabs.com/mstarlabs/ _______________________________________________________________________________ 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. _______________________________________________________________________________