title: An Open-source Toolbox for Analysing and Processing PhysioNet Databases in MATLAB and Octave.
abstract: The WaveForm DataBase (WFDB) Toolbox for MATLAB/Octave enables integrated access to PhysioNet's software and databases. Using the WFDB Toolbox for MATLAB/Octave, users have access to over 50 physiological databases in PhysioNet. The toolbox provides access over 4 TB of biomedical signals including ECG, EEG, EMG, and PLETH. Additionally, most signals are accompanied by metadata such as medical annotations of clinical events: arrhythmias, sleep stages, seizures, hypotensive episodes, etc. Users of this toolbox should easily be able to reproduce, validate, and compare results published based on PhysioNet's software and databases.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory for Computational Physiology/PhysioNet, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.
authors.forename: Ikaro
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Silva
authors.affiliation: Laboratory for Computational Physiology/PhysioNet, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.
authors.forename: George B
authors.initials: GB
authors.lastname: Moody
keywords: Arrhythmia; Biomedical; Biosignal processing; Database; ECG; EEG; MATLAB; Octave; PhysioNet; Physiological Signals; QRS