An XML format for electroencephalogram data presentation (eegML)

With the development of the electronic health record, sharing biomedical and healthcare data among heterogeneous systems has great potential to benefit both clinical healthcare and scientific research. Standardizing the data presentation is the best solution to exchange them among heterogeneous systems. However, electroencephalogram (EEG) data has met problems since existing diverse data formats are unsuitable for this purpose. To address this problem we introduce an XML-based data presentation method named eegML for EEG in this paper. Based on advantages of XML technologies, eegML is a generic system- and application-independent and flexible open solution to the effective presentation of EEG data. Besides, eegML could also be used to aid knowledge management and discovery in biomedical and healthcare informatics. This format, if widely adopted, could better promote EEG data management and mining.