Development of a conceptual reference model for digital ECG data storage

Author

Rubel, P. ; Fayn, J. ; Macfarlane, P.W. ; Willems, J.L.

Author_Institution

INSERM, Lyon, France

fYear

1991

fDate

23-26 Sep 1991

Firstpage

109

Lastpage

112

Abstract

A conceptual reference model has been developed for storage and retrieval of electrocardiogram (ECG) data. The general principles of the model are outlined, and the external models for data acquisition and preprocessing are presented. The model has been designed around the concept of the entity-relationship data model, and includes as many as 38 different entities, 22 relationships with attributes, 16 one-to-many and 10 many-to-many relationships representing simple associations without attributes. Because of its complexity, the model has been split into 6 external models, each centered around a major processing task that an ECG database should be able to support. The complete conceptual reference model may then be built up by merging these 6 reference models

Keywords

electrocardiography; medical diagnostic computing; modelling; ECG database; attributes; conceptual reference model; data acquisition; data preprocessing; digital ECG data storage; entity-relationship data model; many-to-many relationship; one-to-many relationship; simple associations; Data acquisition; Data models; Drugs; Electrocardiography; Information retrieval; Memory; Merging; Object oriented modeling; Stress; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computers in Cardiology 1991, Proceedings.

Conference_Location

Venice

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2485-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CIC.1991.169057

Filename

169057