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FECGSYN toolbox, version 1.3-alpha, August 2019

Open-source platform for reproducible NI-FECG research

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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:

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:

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