Health and Medicine

File Format
Name	Health and Medicine
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Health and Medicine ; ;

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)
General Data Format for Biosignals
- 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)
MEF (Multiscale Electrophysiology File Format)
OpenXDF (Open Exchange Data Format)
SCP-ECG (Standard Communication Protocol for Computer assisted electrocardiography)
SIGIF (A digital SIGnal Interchange Format)
WFDB (Format of Physiobank)

These devices generally use proprietary data formats. The SleepyHead open-source software can read some of them.

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

Eyeglass file format (Ross Spencer) - file format invented by digital preservation researcher to demonstrate how to create file formats