WFDB Software for Python: A toolkit for physiological signals

The Waveform Data Base (WFDB) software for Python is an open-source, less-featured toolkit developed under the shadow of the WFDB package. This library supports various PhysioNet databanks and hence provides excellent pre-processing and feature extraction of biosignals (ECG, EEG, PPG, ABP, ICP, etc.). The structure of this library is simple and can be easily merged with other python features to enhance the experience of the datasets. The detailed discussion of the arrhythmia dataset and complete usage of the WFDB for the python toolkit is shown in this paper. This work is intended solely for informing the user of the functionality, existence, and applicability of the WFDB software for Python.