LoadBeatWFDB: Imports data from a record in wfdb format
Description
Initially, the heart beats of the ECG recordings had to be identified and labelled. For this task, an automated function downloaded from the Physionet website and written in C language was used and incorporated to our R software package. Basically, this algorithm reads the annotation file for the ECG register, and stores the information obtained in a data structure.
Data structure that stores the beats register and information related to it
RecordName
The ECG file to be used
RecordPath
The path of the ECG file
annotator
The type of annotation wished
verbose
Deprecated argument maintained for compatibility, use SetVerbose() instead
Value
Returns Data, the structure that contains beat positions register
References
L. Rodriguez-Linares, X. Vila, A. Mendez, M. Lado, D. Olivieri, "RHRV: An R-based software package for heart rate variability analysis of ECG recordings," 3rd Iberian Conference in Systems and Information Technologies (CISTI 2008), Proceedings I, 565-573, ISBN: 978-84-612-4476-8 (2008)