PUMA Repository Files

EDFplus Engine Notes

PUMA's EDFplus engine is an Object Pascal library that supports reading, writing, parsing and composing multichannel biological and physical signals in the European Data Format (EDF) or its successor EDF+. EDF and EDF+ are standardised exchange formats for biomedical data. Typical applications include ECG recordings, polygraphic data for polysomnography, EEG recordings and physiological data. EDF+ is an extension of EDF, which adds additional information and removes some ambiguities, while maintaining a high degree of backwards-compatibility to EDF.

In order to use the EDFplus Engine in your own enterprises you simply have to add the file "edf.pas" to your project. If you want to develop for EDF+ you have to add "edfplus.pas", too. This unit depends on "edf.pas", which has therefore to be added in any case.

In the directory "Example_Programs" you find sample programs that illustrate how to use the EDFplus engine.

Files in the directory "Test Cases for FPCUnit" are for unit testing with FPCUnit. They are not necessary for normal use, except for the case that you want to improve and test the EDFplus engine.


About the PUMA repository

The PUMA repository is a collection of units for development of medical applications in Pascal. See http://puma-repository.sf.net for details.


License

Files of the PUMA repository are licensed with a BSD license. This facilitates their usage in both free open source software and commercial applications.

This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.


J. W. Dietrich