Health and Medicine

Revision as of 01:35, 7 April 2013

Biomedical signals (time series)

• ACQ (AcqKnowledge)
• BCI2000 (The BCI2000 project)
• BioSemi (BDF) data format
• BKR (EEG data format)
• CFWB (Chart Data File Format)
• DICOM-Waveform (An extension of Dicom for storing waveform data)
• ecgML (A markup language for electrocardiogram data acquisition and analysis)
• EDF/EDF+ (European Data Format)
• FEF (File Exchange Format for Vital signs, CEN TS 14271)
• GDF v1.x (General Data Format for biomedical signals - Version 1.x)
• GDF v2.x (The General Data Format for biomedical signals - Version 2.x)
• HL7aECG (Health Level 7 v3 annotated ECG)
• OpenXDF (Open Exchange Data Format)
• SCP-ECG (Standard Communication Protocol for Computer assisted electrocardiography)
• SIGIF (A digital SIGnal Interchange Format)
• WFDB (Format of Physiobank)

Medical Imaging

• BRIK/HEAD (Voxel data from AFNI programs, dual-file (data and metadata, repectively))
• MGH (uncompressed)
• MGZ (zip-compressed)
• DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (.dcm))
• MINC (Medical Imaging NetCDF format; since version 2.0, based on HDF5 (.mnc))
• OME-TIFF (Open Microscopy Imaging format)
• OME-XML (Open Microscopy Imaging format)
• OST (Open Spatio-Temporal) (extensible, open alternative for microscope images)
• NII (Neuroimaging Informatics Technology Initiative (NIfTI) voxel data, single-file (combined data and metadata))
• IMG/HDR (ANALYZE or NIfTI voxel data, dual-file (separate data and metadata, respectively))
• gii (NIfTI offspring for brain surface data, single-file (combined data and meta-data) style)
• TRK (Vector data describing tracts of neurons, used by TrackVis)
• SDM (Signed Differential Mapping- brain maps(.sdm))