OpenECG Software Tools Repository

Welcome to the OpenECG SW Tools Repository

A common opinion in the OpenECG consortium is that one reason for the poor diffusion of standards stays in the lack of public software. In order to cope this problem the consortium decided to adopt and promote, even beyond the project partners, the "open-source/free-software" strategy in the software development and use. Free Software seems to be a natural choice when dissemination of results and co-operation should be the key for increasing knowledge and for exchanging/evaluating new products and ideas; all of this ideas involving in some way the freedom left to the users.
This OpenECG SW Tools Repository is an annotated collection of open source and shareware tools for computerized ECGs, tools for the viewing, processing, and translation of Computerized ECGs.
This repository is one of several services provided by the OpenECG thematic network (www.OpenECG.net) to its members with the purpose of overcoming the interoperability gap in electrocardiography.
Interoperability can be easily obtained through the use of well-established standards for communication and storage of the ECG examination like the SCP-ECG standard (CEN ENV 1064) and the promotion and the diffusion of these standards is one of the OpenECG main objectives.
If you are not yet a member of the OpenECG network you can join it sending an application form membership.
The entire list of services includes:

A mailing list reserved to the OpenECG members where relevant questions, news and information are exchanged among all the OpenECG members.
A Help Desk where you can ask for Development Support sending ECGs in SCP-ECG format for their accurate analysis and receiving back a detailed report that describes the weak points in the implementation of the standard made in the files you sent.
A members’ area that can be accessed through your OpenECG member account will allow you to access other services like:

OpenECG Certification Service where you can submit an ECG (in SCP-ECG format) for its format and content checks.
Tools and Converters where you can access a converter from SCP-ECG to DICOM waveform supplement 30 or an SCP-ECG mail parser service where each developer can send email with an SCP-ECG record attached for having information about its structure and appearance in PNG format.
SCP-ECG Databases where you can access different databases of real SCP-ECG implementation each one linked to the relevant comments about the correctness of its implementation. For example, at IFC (this) site, members can access scp-records submitted to IFC mail parser service
Collection of ECG Data in XML or Other Relevant Formats where you can access some ECGs records in other relevant formats as XML (like Philips FDA implementation), DICOM, etc.

Available Tools Summary:

Author	Title	Last Modified
Edna & George Moody	Textual SCP Reader Application	2002-12-10
David Clunie	Java Visual SCP Reader Application	2004-03-11
Alois Schlögl	SCP-Converter for Octave and Matlab	2004-03-11
A.Kokkinaki, I.Chouvarda	Visual SCP Reader-Writer Application	2004-03-11
Eugenio Cervesato, Giorgio De Odorico	Visual SCP Reader Application	2005-08-30
FrancescoCiani	SCP XML Converter	2004-03-11
Mauro Micalizzi, Fabrizio Conforti	Textual and Visual SCP Reader-Writer Application	2004-03-26