Workshop to Develop Guidelines for
Electronic Interchange of Polysomnography Data

Collected on this page are slides from the talks presented at the workshop, in PDF and PPT formats. All slides are © 2006 by their authors.

[PDF] [PPT] Introduction
Indu Ayappa, PhD, NYU Sleep Disorders Center, New York, NY

Session 1: Needs of the field

1. [PDF] [PPT] NPSG Data Exchange: Where We Are Today and What We Need
   David M. Rapoport, MD, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY
2. [PDF} [PPT] SHHS Data Dissemination to the Research/Academic Community: Needs and Opportunities
   Kenneth A. Loparo, PhD, EECS Department, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
3. [PDF] [PPT] Data Exchange Standards for Clinical Neurophysiology
   Susan T. Herman, MD, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA
4. [PDF] [PPT] Needs of the clinical sleep community
   Max Hirshkowitz, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine and Michael E. DeBakey VAMC, Houston, TX
5. [PDF] [PPT] Polysomnographic Data Sharing: An NIH Perspective
   Michael Twery, PhD, Division of Lung Diseases, NHLBI, Washington, DC
6. [PDF] [PPT] New Data Interchange Format? Concerns of Commercial Software Providers
   Jeff Kuznia, Compumedics, El Paso, TX
   [This talk was presented by Indu Ayappa, since Mr. Kuznia was unable to attend the conference.]
7. [PDF] [PPT] Development of Standards for Data Exchange in Sleep Medicine
   Thomas Penzel, PhD, Klinikum der Phillupps-Universitat Marburg, Marburg, Germany

Session 2: Brief presentations on existing approaches

1. [PDF] [PPT] EDF and EDF+
   Bob Kemp, PhD, Leiden University and Centre for Sleep and Wake Disorders, MCH - Westeinde Hospital Netherlands
2. [PDF] [PPT] SDF: Stanford Data Format
   Zak Sahul, MD, PhD, Yale University, New Haven, CT; Oscar Carrillo and Jed Black, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
3. [PDF] [PPT] OpenXDF: Discussion on an XML-Based Open File Format for PSG
   Claude Albertario, RPSGT, Winthrop-University Hospital, Mineola, NY
4. [PDF] [PPT] File Exchange Format for Vital Signs, ENV 14271 and its use in Electronic Interchange of Polysomnography Data
   Alpo Varri, PhD, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland
5. [PDF] [PPT] WFDB / PhysioNet Formats
   George B. Moody, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Cambridge, MA
6. [PDF] [PPT] SleepXML: XML Application for Polysomnographic Data Storage and Exchange
   Vladimir Ivanov, PhD, Pro-Tech Inc., Philadelphia, PA
7. [PDF] [PPT] Comparison and summary of advantages/disadvantages of existing approaches
   Robert Norman, PhD, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY