What is the EDF Data Format?

You might have stumbled upon the widely adopted EDF data format when looking at time series, especially in the medical field.

In this tutorial, we'll take a deeper look at the EDF format and use a real sleep study data set to programmatically open it using python

Table of Content
- Introduction: 0:00
- History of the EDF format: 0:57
- Overview of the EDF/EDF+ format: 2:42
- Example EDF File: 3:55
- Loading EDF using Python: 5:19
- Conclusion: 9:29
- 🌱: 9:40

First shots of the sleep study taken from this great youtube video, check it out:
📌    • I Spent a Night in a Sleep Study — He...  

Information about the EDF/EDF+ format in written form:
📌 https://www.edfplus.info/

Example file used in this tutorial:
📌 https://paulbourke.net/dataformats/ed...

[Paper] A simple format for exchange of digitized polygraphic recordings :
📌 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1374708/

[Paper] European data format 'plus' (EDF+), an EDF alike standard format for the exchange of physiological data :
📌 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12948...

Enjoy! 🌹

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