Additional Resources

This page provides some additional resources for further reading after the Workshop which may be of interest.

MIMIC

Further information on the MIMIC Database is available at:

• The MIMIC Database homepage

• A brief introduction to MIMIC on the Laboratory for Computational Physiology’s website

• A textbook on MIMIC

• The article describing MIMIC-III

The WFDB Specifications and Toolbox

• WFDB Specifications: Documentation of the specifications for Waveform Database (WFDB) files and concepts.

• WFDB Software Package: The original software package written in C.

• WFDB Python Package

• WFDB Toolbox for Matlab

Open Research

• The Turing Way handbook to reproducible, ethical and collaborative data science, which includes guidelines on Open Research.

• The Software Sustainability Institute, including Guides on ensuring software sustainability.

Software development and management

• An introduction to Python is available here.

• Tutorials on Git and GitHub, which are used for version control and collaborative code development, are available here and here.

Cuffless Blood Pressure estimation

• Review of Cuffless Blood Pressure Measurement: a review of the topic by leaders in the field.

• Evaluating Cuffless Blood Pressure Devices: a review on “the capabilities and limitations of emerging cuffless BP measurement devices”, with proposals of how to evaluate such devices.

Photoplethysmography

• Photoplethysmography Signal Processing and Synthesis: a textbook chapter providing a comprehensive overview of PPG signal processing.

• Wearable photoplethysmography for cardiovascular monitoring: a review paper detailing different aspects of wearable photoplethysmography, including signal processing and clinical applications.

• Establishing best practices in photoplethysmography signal acquisition and processing: an article discussing whether it would be possible and beneficial to establish best practices for photoplethysmography signal acquisition and processing.

Datasets containing physiological signals

• Physionet: PhysioNet hosts many datasets containing physiological signals, listed here.

• Photoplethysmography datasets: There are several publicly available datasets containing photoplethysmogram signals, many of which are listed here.