New Members

[05/02/2013], Masonic Medical Research Laboratory, Utica, NY, USA The Masonic Medical Research Laboratory is a not-for-profit institute dedicated to improving the health and quality of life for all. The Laboratory primary mission is to conduct high quality basic and clinical research aimed at generating knowledge and information necessary for development of the medical cures and treatments of tomorrow.

[04/22/2013], Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (Barcelona-Tech), Barcelona, Spain. The Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC): BarcelonaTech is a public institution dedicated to higher education and research, specialised in the fields of engineering, architecture and science. With a focus on intellectual rigor, critical thinking, a transversal approach to knowledge, educational innovation and entrepreneurship, the UPC produces competent professionals with the skills they need to tackle present and future challenges.

[03/20/2013], Teschnische Universitat(TU), Dresden, Germany. The TU Dresden is one of eleven German universities that were identified as an Excellence University. TUD has about 36.500 students and almost 5319 employees, 507 professors among them, and, thus, is the largest university in Saxony.

[02/08/2013], Baskir State Pedagogical University (BSPU), Ufa City, Russia M. Akmullah BSPU is a large scientific, educational, cultural and social center of the Republic of Bashkortostan. It includes the Institute of Pedagogics, the Institute of Professional Education and Information Technologies, the Institute of Historical and Legal Education, the Institute of Philological Education and Cross-Cultural Communication and 7 departments with about 12 000 students.

[02/01/2013], Chung-Yuan Christian University, Taiwan, China Chung Yuan Christian University is founded on the spirit of Christian love for the world. With faith, hope, and love, we endeavor to promote higher education for the benefit of the Chinese people, aiming at the pursuit and advancement of genuine knowledge in order to maintain our cultural heritage and, thus, to serve humankind.

[12/11/2012], Cardio-QT Ltd., Glasgow,, United Kingdom Headed by Royal College Accredited Cardiologist and Bioengineer supported by PhD Scientists, Cardio-QT Ltd is an award winning, highly innovative Core Cardiac Analysis Laboratory offering an array of sophisticated validated techniques to solve all analytical research problems.

[10/21/2012], National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico, Mexico City,, Mexico The Institute is the State secular free education institution, guide of public technological education in Mexico. A leader in the generation, application, dissemination and transfer of scientific and technological knowledge.

[09/24/2012], Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School , Charlestown, MA,, USA Mass General has long been a leader in successfully bridging innovative science with state-of-the-art clinical medicine. With an annual research budget of nearly $764 million, Mass General conducts the largest hospital-based research program in the United States - a program that spans more than 20 clinical departments and centers across the hospital. This funding drives discoveries and breakthroughs in basic and clinical research, which translate into new and better treatments that transform medical practice and patient care.

[05/24/2012], College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY,, USA The mission of the Department of Biomedical Sciences is to educate and inform the veterinary and human biomedical communities through our diverse research and clinical service excellence as well as through our commitment to undergraduate, graduate, and veterinary teaching.

[05/02/2012], The Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute (VCCRI), Sydney, Australia The VCCRI is committed to excellence in research into heart disease and cardiovascular biology, cardiovascular research training, and facilitating the rapid application of research discoveries to patient care.

[02/09/2012], Samsung Electronics Co., Future IT Research Center, SAIT , Gyeonggi,, Korea SAIT provides a full spectrum of support so its researchers can focus on creative research, seek the convergence of heterogeneous technologies and take up new challenges. Meanwhile, SAIT also actively engages in "open innovation" to jointly create future value with other research institutions through collaboration.

[01/26/2012], FDA-CDRH: Center for Devices and Radiological Health, Silver Spring, MD, USA FDA Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) is responsible for regulating firms who manufacture, repackage, relabel, and/or import medical devices sold in the United States. In addition, CDRH regulates radiation-emitting electronic products (medical and non-medical) such as lasers, x-ray systems, ultrasound equipment, microwave ovens and color televisions.

[01/10/2012], Department of Physiological Nursing, University of California, San Francisco, CA, , USA The Mission of the Department of Physiological Nursing prevention of UCSF is to study the prevention, measurement, and treatment of physiological and biobehavioral responses to health, illness/disease and aging. Psycho-physiological interrelationships and interventions also are studied. Research spans all phases of the health/illness trajectory including people who are healthy, critically ill, living with a chronic illness, and those at the end of life.

[01/03/2012], University of Bologna (HST-ICIR) , Bologna,, Italy The University of Bologna was probably the first University in the western world. Its history is one of great thinkers in science and the humanities, making it an indispensable point of reference in the panorama of European culture. Bologna has thus been called upon to forge relationships with institutions in the most advanced countries to modernise and expand its activity. Among the many challenges which it has met with success, Bologna committed itself to the European dimension which has now led to adoption of the new university system.

Press Center

[09/23/2010]: AstraZeneca joins the THEW to further cardiac safety inThe Medical News: here.

[12/16/2009]: The Director of the THEW interviewed by Technology Review published by the MIT: here.

[11/11/2009]: New Research Center to Focus on Cardiac Safety and Innovation in Pharmaceutical Industry Today: here.

[6/11/2009]: University of of Rochester and FDA Partner for ECG Database, Drug Discovery & Development Magazine. More info here

[5/6/2009] FDA website Existing Partnerships FDAs Public-Private Partnership Program: THEW

[03/28/2009] Public and Private part- nership to help determine Clinical Biomarker Utility in Applied Clinical Trials online.com.>here

THEW File FORMAT and reading procedures

ECG File Format:

The ECG signals can be downloaded from the THEW SFTP server in ISHNE format. To read the Holter ECG ISHNE format please refer to the description provided here. Example of ISHNE files (ECG and annotation) and reading procedure are provided below for C++ and Matlab environments.

MATLAB and C++ reading functions (to download):

To read the files from the THEW, we provide MATLAB and C++ procedures to be downloaded from the links below.

To read ECG and annotation files in c++:
ReadIshne.cpp

To read the ECG and annotation files in MATLAB:
read_ishne.m and read_binAnn.m

To read the ECG and annotation files in MATLAB directly from the THEW SFTP server
(by Daniel Guldenring, Ulster Unversity , UK):
License terms for JAVA SFTP Library
License terms for LicenseMatlabSources
THEW SFTP access M file code example
THEW SFTP dynamic Java class sFtpThew.jar
Function to add a *.jar file to the dynamic Java class path sFtpAddDynPath
Function to connect to the THEW SFTP server: sFtpConnect.m
Function to disconnect to the THEW SFTP server: sFtpDisconnect.m
Function to open file on the THEW SFTP server: sFtpFopen.m
Function to close file on the THEW SFTP server: sFtpFclose.m
Function to seek file on the THEW SFTP server: sFtpFseek.m
Function to return current location in the file on the THEW SFTP server: sFtpFtell.m
Function to return contents of a directory from the remote THEW SFTP server: sFtpLs.m
Function to read the annotation files from THEW SFTP server:sFtpRead_binAnn.m
Function to read the waveform files from THEW SFTP server:sFtpRead_ishne.m
Function to set the type of the data read form the THEW SFTP server:sFtpTypeCast.m

Examples of ECG and annotation files (to download):

ECG files (click to download)
ASCII (5 min duration, 3 leads, 200 HZ)
ISHNE (25 min duration, 3 leads, 200HZ)
Annotation files (click to download)
ASCII (25 minutes)
THEW Binary Annotation File (25 minutes)
High-resolution 12-lead Holter (click to download)
ISHNE recording+ annotation file (10 minutes)
S1123.zip (zipped)

 

ECG ANNOTATION Format:

The annotation information from the Holter ECG signals can be extracted from the THEW Client application in binary format following the annotation format described here or in ASCII format. The available cardiac beast anoation are defined as follow:

annotation