How to store analysis results in EDF?
Any automatic or manual analysis result that is again a single or multi-channel timeseries (for instance a deltaplot together with an automatically scored hypnogram) can easily be stored in an EDF file. Some experience and discussions in the COMAC-BME and Siesta groups resulted in the following guidelines 1. The analysis result should be stored in a separate EDF file. In order to reliably link the analysis file to the originally recorded file, the analysis program should: – insert the name part of the originally recorded file at the beginning of the analysis filename, letting the two filenames differ only by additional characters at the end of the name part or by choosing a different filename extension. – copy the patient-id line (80 characters) from the header of the recorded file to the header of the analysis file. – preferrably start the analysis at the exact beginning of the originally recorded file and let the program simply copy startdate and starttime from the originally recorde
