In biomedical signal processing, the aim is to extract clinically, biochemically or pharmaceutically relevant information in order to enable an improved medical diagnosis. All living things, from cells to organism, deliver signals of biological origin. Such signals can be electric, mechanical, or chemical. All such signals can be of interest for diagnosis, for patient monitoring and biomedical ...

Biomedical signals are stored in many different data formats. Most formats have been developed for a specific purpose of a specialized community for ECG research, EEG analysis, sleep research, etc. So far none of the existing formats can be considered a general purpose data format for biomedical signals. In order to solve this problem and to unify the various needs of the various biomedical sig...