This paper describes a suite of programs that support evaluations of
automated ECG analyzers in accordance with the methods described in
the EC38 and EC57 standards (as well as those in the earlier ECAR
Recommended Practice). These methods are sufficiently complex that
the development of such a suite of programs is not an afternoon's
work. By making generally available reference implementations of the
evaluation algorithms, much needless duplication of effort may be
avoided. By circulating them in source form to other users, we may
hope to find and correct any bugs, with the eventual result that
evaluators of devices should not have to bear the burden of evaluating
the evaluation technique itself. By using them for evaluations, any
ambiguities in the English specification of the evaluation algorithms
are resolved in a consistent manner for each device tested. These
programs are written in C and run under MS-DOS or UNIX. They have
been made available as part of the WFDB Software Package. In this
paper, the names of these programs are printed like this.
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