An open source ECG toolkit with DICOM

Author

van Ettinger, M.J.B. ; Lipton, J.A. ; de Wijs, M.C.J. ; van der Putten, N. ; Nelwan, S.P.

Author_Institution

Erasmus MC, Rotterdam

fYear

2008

fDate

14-17 Sept. 2008

Firstpage

441

Lastpage

444

Abstract

Unlike the ubiquitous use of DICOM for sharing various medical image modalities, the storage and retrieval of digital 12-lead electrocardiograms across different ECG management systems is often limited to manual file-based export and import using vendor-specific solutions. In addition to SCP-ECG, a number of open standard initiatives have been introduced, such as DICOM-ECG and HL7 aECG. By extending and improving a previously developed ECG toolkit we have explored the capabilities of these open standards in terms of interoperability, filesize and transmission times. The ECG toolkit is almost entirely available under the Apache License Version 2.0.

Keywords

computer communications software; data communication; electrocardiography; file organisation; information retrieval; information storage; medical administrative data processing; medical computing; public domain software; Apache License Version 2.0; DICOM-ECG; ECG data filesize; ECG data interoperability; ECG data transmission time; ECG management systems; HL7 aECG; SCP-ECG; digital ECG data retrieval; digital ECG data storage; digital electrocardiograms; open source ECG toolkit; Biomedical imaging; Cardiology; DICOM; Electrocardiography; H infinity control; Hospitals; Image storage; Manufacturing; Medical diagnostic imaging; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computers in Cardiology, 2008

Conference_Location

Bologna

ISSN

0276-6547

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3706-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CIC.2008.4749073

Filename

4749073