PhysioZoo project

Referencing

When using PhysioZoo resources please reference the following paper:

Joachim A. Behar, Jeremy Levy, Eran Zvuloni, Sheina Gendelman, Aviv Rosenberg, Shany Biton, Raphael Derman et al. “PhysioZoo: The Open Digital Physiological Biomarkers Resource.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.04498 (2023).

Link to the paper: here

In addition,

When using PhysioZoo HRV please reference the following paper:

Joachim A. Behar†, Aviv A. Rosenberg†, Ido Weiser-Bitoun, Ori Shemla, Alexandra Alexandrovich, Evgene Konyukhov, Yael Yaniv. “PhysioZoo: a novel open access platform for heart rate variability analysis of mammalian electrocardiographic data.” Frontiers in Physiology 9 (2018): 1390.

Link to the paper: here

†Co-first authors.

When using PhysioZoo OBM please reference the following paper:

Jeremy Levy, Daniel Álvarez, Aviv A. Rosenberg, Alexandra Alexandrovich, Felix del Campo and Joachim A. Behar. “Digital oximetry biomarkers for assessing respiratory function: standards of measurement, physiological interpretation, and clinical use”. NPJ digital medicine 4.1 (2021): 1-14.

Link to the paper: here

When using PhysioZoo ECG please reference the following paper:

Sheina Gendelman, Shany Biton, Raphael Derman, Eran Zvuloni, Jeremy Levy, Snir Lugassy, Alexandra Alexandrovich and Joachim A. Behar. PhysioZoo ECG: Digital electrocardiography biomarkers to assess cardiac conduction. Computing in Cardiology. Brno, Czech Republic, 12-15th September 2021 (hybrid event). Vol. 48. IEEE, 2021

Link to the paper: here

When using PhysioZoo PPG please reference the following paper:

Goda, M. A., Charlton, P. H., & Behar, J. A. (2023). pyPPG: A Python toolbox for comprehensive photoplethysmography signal analysis. arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.13767.

Link to the paper: here

Support

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Contact us at: physiozoolab@gmail.com

Why PhysioZoo?

  • Data visualization: graphical user interface which enables HRV analysis and data visualization without writing any code.

  • Reproducibility of research: Human readable configuration files which contain all the parameters of the peak detectors, preprocessing routines and HRV measures. This file is self containing and ensure research can be reproduced using this configuration file and the original data.

  • Algorithmic toolbox: Completely scriptable for embedding into your custom processing code.

  • Open-source collaborative platform: Both the source code and documentation are not only freely available, they’re also easy to modify and update using git and GitHub.

How to contribute?

The PhysioZoo project is dynamic and so novel contributions are welcomed. You can contribute by:

  • Fork it fork the repository on the project’s main page

  • Create a pull request contribute algorithms and improvements to the PhysioZoo toolbox

  • Bugs! In case you in encounter a bug and cannot figure out the solution, please have a look at the issues page and don’t hesitate to open a new issue if you can’t find an answer.

  • Pitch in your new ideas for future releases by suggesting an enhancement.

Benefits of Contributing

Collaborative research has various benefits, here are some of those:

  • Enable other researchers to contribute, debug and build on your work
  • Advertise your research, published algorithms are linked in the documentation
  • Ensure reproducibility of your results

Contributors

The following individuals have contributed to the PhysioZoo project:

  • Joachim A. Behar
  • Aviv A. Rosenberg
  • Yael Yaniv
  • Alexandra Alexandrovich
  • Ido Weiser-Bitoun
  • Ori Shemla
  • Eugene Konyukhov
  • Moran Davoodi
  • Armand Chocron
  • Jeremy Levy
  • Snir Lugassy
  • Daniel Álvarez
  • Felix del Campo
  • Sheina Gendelman
  • Eran Zvuloni
  • Jonathan Sobel
  • Márton Á. Goda
  • Peter H. Charlton
  • Shany Biton

License

Released under the GNU General Public License

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

If you are a company and want to use PhysioZoo then please email us at: physiozoolab@gmail.com

Third-party attribution

PhysioZoo makes use of the following open-source software packages:

Consult the project page of each above package for it’s respective license and copyright holder.

Acknowledgement

We kindly acknowledge the support of the Steve and Ilene Berger Portable Biomedicine Innovation Laboratory Fund at the Technion.