Durka Piotr J, Ircha Dobiesław
Laboratory of Medical Physics, Institute of Experimental Physics, Warsaw University, ul. Hoza 69, 00-681 Warsaw, Poland.
Comput Methods Programs Biomed. 2004 Dec;76(3):253-9. doi: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2004.05.007.
This paper introduces a complete and elegant solution to the problem of inherent incompatibility of different formats used for digital storage of biomedical time series (in particular EEG) and their annotations. We define a simple XML-based language, in which information on the structure of binary data files can be simply and efficiently coded. In most cases, description of an existing format takes relatively few lines of XML code. Once written, this information can be used by any software, which, owing to this meta-description, may read the original data files, thus eliminating the need for conversions and duplication of data. This proposition is hereby submitted to an open discussion within the community involved in relevant research, clinical and commercial applications. Links to the current version of the XML Schema defining the language and pilot implementation of a compliant viewer/annotator are located at http://eeg.pl/SignalML/.
本文介绍了一种完整且优雅的解决方案，用于解决生物医学时间序列（特别是脑电图）及其注释的数字存储所使用的不同格式之间的固有不兼容性问题。我们定义了一种基于XML的简单语言，在这种语言中，可以简单而高效地编码二进制数据文件结构的信息。在大多数情况下，现有格式的描述只需几行XML代码。一旦编写完成，任何软件都可以使用这些信息，由于这种元描述，该软件可以读取原始数据文件，从而无需进行数据转换和复制。此提议现提交给参与相关研究、临床和商业应用的社区进行公开讨论。定义该语言的XML模式的当前版本链接以及合规查看器/注释器的试点实现位于http://eeg.pl/SignalML/ 。
