Integrate SierraECG Support
ECG Toolkit support for: SCP-ECG, DICOM, HL7 aECG, ISHNE & MUSE-XML
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#17 Integrate SierraECG Support
I'm the author of sierra-ecg-tools (available on Github), which provides read support for Philips SierraECG XML format. Previously it has been difficult to read these files without official Philips tools because of their undocumented compression format. I'd love to get support for this integrated into your ECG Viewer.
Let me know how I can help!
This would be a very interesting addition, supporting this large ECG manufacturer would be a big improvement (at least enough for another release). I see you already did quite some work to retrieve signals from the Sierra ECG files (Github).
There are three issues/questions I would like to resolve before I will contact you providing my contact information:
- Is Philips/Sierra onboard with or are they at least aware of your publication of these (semi-)closed parts of their ECG standard?
- Does your code also include writing of a Sierra styled Base64 encoding (obviously I only scanned the code)?
- If I would pick this up as a feature would you be able to provide me with some sample Sierra files?
I've not contacted Philips regarding this code, it was "clean room" engineered so that I could get data off of one of our cardiac monitors. My assumption is it previously wasn't published because the LZW compression they used was patented (LZW became well known during the GIF89 patent licensing fiasco many years ago).
I used the .Net Framework's built in Base64 encoding/decoding so writing could be integrated easily.
There are a number of sample files available in the Github repository.
Well I am looking forward to some spare time in December. So my guess is I will be able to implement this in the first 2 weeks of December. Will post back with the first results.