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FECGSYN toolbox, version 1.3-alpha, August 2019

Open-source platform for reproducible NI-FECG research

Authors

FECGSYN is the product of a collaboration between the Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford (DES-OX), the Institute of Biomedical Engineering, TU Dresden (IBMT-TUD), the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne (EEE-UOM) and the Biomedical Engineering Faculty at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology (BME-IIT). The authors are:

  • Joachim Behar
  • Fernando Andreotti
  • Julien Oster
  • Sebastian Zaunseder
  • Gari D. Clifford
  • Emerson Keenan
  • Chandan Karmakar
  • Marimuthu Palaniswami

Contacts: jbehar@technion.ac.il & fernando.andreotti@eng.ox.ac.uk

History

FECGSYN is built upon the work from McSharry et al. [1] and Sameni et al. [2] The original code from McSharry et al. is available in MATLAB and in C on PhysioNet. The code developed by Sameni et al. is part of the OSET toolbox, also available online in MATLAB. Links to these work are available at: http://physionet.incor.usp.br/physiotools/ipmcode/

  1. McSharry, Patrick E and Clifford, Gari D and Tarassenko, Lionel and Smith, Leonard A. A dynamical model for generating synthetic electrocardiogram signals. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 50(3) 2003.

  2. Sameni, Reza, et al. Multichannel ECG and noise modeling: application to maternal and foetal ECG signals. EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2007 (2007).

References

When using FECGSYN please reference at least one of the following articles:

  1. Behar, Joachim, Fernando Andreotti, Sebastian Zaunseder, Qiao Li, Julien Oster, and Gari D Clifford. 2014. "An ECG Model for Simulating Maternal-Foetal Activity Mixtures on Abdominal ECG Recordings." Physiol Meas 35(8), pp.1537-50, 2014.

and/or

  1. Andreotti F., Behar J., Zaunseder S.,Oster J. and Clifford G D., An Open-Source Framework for Stress-Testing Non-Invasive Foetal ECG Extraction Algorithms. Physiol Meas 37(5), pp. 627-648, 2016.

If you are using FECGSYN's asymmetric volume conductor modeling capability, please reference the following article:

  1. Keenan E., Karmakar C K. and Palaniswami M., The effects of asymmetric volume conductor modeling on non-invasive fetal ECG extraction. Physiol Meas 39(10), pp. 105013, 2018.

License

Released under the GNU General Public License

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program 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. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

Disclaimer

This toolbox makes use of several other pre-existing open source algorithms listed below:

  • ECGSYN: A realistic ECG waveform generator, by Dr. Patrick McSharry and Gari D. Clifford, available here (licensed under GNU GPL 2.0)
  • Open Source ECG Toolbox (OSET), v1.0, by Dr. Reza Sameni, available here (licensed under GNU GPL 2.0)
  • FastICA for Matlab, v2.5, by Hugo Gävert, Jarmo Hurri, Jaakko Särelä, and Aapo Hyvärinen available here (licensed under GNU GPL 2.0)
  • JadeR, by Jean-Francois Cardoso, available here (BSD license)
  • FECG-ESN toolbox, v1.0, Dr. Joachim Behar, available here (licensed under GNU GPL 2.0)
  • ESN learning toolbox, v1.0, by H. Jaeger (Fraunhofer IAIS), available here (unlicensed)
  • QRS Detection with Pan-Tompkins algorithm, by Daniel Wedekind, available here (licensed under GNU GPL 2.0)
  • arrow.m, by Dr. Erik A. Johnson, available here, (BSD license)
  • fwhm.m, v1.2, by Patrick Egan, available here, (BSD license)
  • pcorr2.m, by Peter Rydesäter, available here (BSD license)
  • FieldTrip: The MATLAB toolbox for MEG and EEG analysis, v20190828, by Robert Oostenveld, Pascal Fries, Eric Maris, and Jan-Mathijs Schoffelen, available here (licensed under GNU GPL 2.0)
  • Iso2Mesh, v1.9.0-1, Qianqian Fang, available here (licensed under GNU GPL 2.0)

Not provided with package, ocasionally required, see install instructions:

  • WFDB Toolbox for MATLAB and Octave, v.0.9.9, by Dr. Ikaro Silva, available here (licensed under GNU GPL 2.0)
  • Pre-processed anatomic models, by Emerson Keenan, available here (licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 FR)