Sleep atlas and multimedia database

Stud Health Technol Inform. 2000:78:101-25.

Abstract

The ENN sleep atlas and database was set up on a dedicated server connected to the internet thus providing all services such as WWW, ftp and telnet access. The database serves as a platform to promote the goals of the European Neurological Network, to exchange patient cases for second opinion between experts and to create a case-oriented multimedia sleep atlas with descriptive text, images and video-clips of all known sleep disorders. The sleep atlas consists of a small public and a large private part for members of the consortium. 20 patient cases were collected and presented with educational information similar to published case reports. Case reports are complemented with images, video-clips and biosignal recordings. A Java based viewer for biosignals provided in EDF format was installed in order to move free within the sleep recordings without the need to download the full recording on the client.

MeSH terms

  • CD-ROM
  • Databases, Factual*
  • Europe
  • Humans
  • Internet*
  • Multimedia*
  • Polysomnography*
  • Reference Values
  • Sleep Wake Disorders / diagnosis*