Moody George B, Mark Roger G, Goldberger Ary L
Laboratory for Computational Physiology, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technolog, Cambridge, MA 20139, USA.
Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2011;2011:8327-30. doi: 10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6092053.
PhysioNet provides free web access to over 50 collections of recorded physiologic signals and time series, and related open-source software, in support of basic, clinical, and applied research in medicine, physiology, public health, biomedical engineering and computing, and medical instrument design and evaluation. Its three components (PhysioBank, the archive of signals; PhysioToolkit, the software library; and PhysioNetWorks, the virtual laboratory for collaborative development of future PhysioBank data collections and PhysioToolkit software components) connect researchers and students who need physiologic signals and relevant software with researchers who have data and software to share. PhysioNet's annual open engineering challenges stimulate rapid progress on unsolved or poorly solved questions of basic or clinical interest, by focusing attention on achievable solutions that can be evaluated and compared objectively using freely available reference data.
生理网提供免费的网络访问,可获取50多个记录生理信号和时间序列的数据集以及相关的开源软件,以支持医学、生理学、公共卫生、生物医学工程与计算、医疗仪器设计与评估等领域的基础、临床和应用研究。它的三个组成部分(生理库,即信号存档;生理工具包,即软件库;以及生理网络,即用于未来生理库数据集和生理工具包软件组件协同开发的虚拟实验室)将需要生理信号和相关软件的研究人员及学生与拥有数据和软件可供分享的研究人员联系起来。生理网每年举办的开放式工程挑战通过关注可利用免费参考数据进行客观评估和比较的可实现解决方案,推动对具有基础或临床意义但尚未解决或解决得不好的问题取得快速进展。