CTGViewer documentation¶
The CTGViewer is a software used to display cardiotocography (CTG) records – fetal heart rate and uterine contractions together with a clinical information. It allows to easily browse directory of CTG files (e.g. the CTU-UHB cardiotographic database).
Features:
- display CTG records in physionet (dat), matlab, and csv format
- view CTG together with clinical information (biochemical markers, length of I. and II. stage of labour etc)
- display CTG in European (1 cm/min, 20 bpm/cm) and US (3cm/min, 30 bpm/cm) formats.
- convert physionet (dat) format to csv
- download complete CTU-UHB database from physionet
- create simple annotations like basal heart rate, accelerations, decelerations, and notes
- export CTG to PDF (including annotations)

The CTGViewer was developed by Jiri Spilka and Vaclav Chudacek at Czech Technical University in Prague
The application is maintained at CIIRC, Czech Technical University in Prague
Note: The CTGViewer was developed for research purposes and it is provided with no warranty. The CTGViewer is distributed under GNU General Public License version 3.
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Changelog:¶
- 2017-10-13 - supports SPAM challenge data
- 2016-08-03 - added tool Caliper (used for measurement of time and bpm)
- 2016-07-12 - added export to PDF file
- 2016-04-13 - added annotations - ellipse, refactoring
- 2016-01-14 - added annotations (basal, baseline, etc.)
- 2016-01-06 - browse records in one folder
- 2016-01-01 - EU and US paper size, move in record using mouse wheel button and arrows
- 2014-04-01 - two bug fixes, one with settings ini and the other with database downloading
- 2014-03-30 - tool for batch download of the CTU-UHB CTG database
- 2014-03-29 - easy installation for Windows
- 2014-03-12 - fixed bug with reading physionet header