Reproducing the Pulse Wave Database

Overview

This page provides a summary of how to reproduce the Pulse Wave Database reported in this article. This may be useful for two reasons:

1. The approach used for simulating pulse waves in this study may also be useful in future studies, and the tools used in this study could be adapted to use the approach in future studies. For instance, this study simulated PWs representative of a sample of healthy adult subjects. In the future someone may wish to simulate PWs representative of a sample of hypertensive subjects, using the scripts from the present study as a starting point.

2. The experiment reported in this article can be reproduced by following the steps on this page, allowing others to understand the fine details of the experiment, and to evaluate it for themselves.

Note that if you simply want to use the Pulse Wave Database, then it can be downloaded from here.

Steps

The experiment reported in this article can be reproduced by following these four steps. Further details on each step are provided at the linked webpages.

1. Reproducing the literature review: The analysis of the literature review which determined the model input parameters can be reproduced by following these instructions. This step isn't strictly necessary for reproducing the pulse wave database.
2. Creating the Pulse Wave Database: Create the database by generating input files, running the simulations, extracting data from the output files, analysing the pulse waves, and exporting the final pulse wave database.
3. Reproducing the Analysis: Re-run the analysis of the pulse wave database reported in the article (with some additional analyses too).
4. Reproducing the Case Studies: Re-run the case studies reported in the article - a useful starting point for anyone wanting to explore the database.
5. Reproducing the Figures in the article: Use a selection of the figures created during the analysis and case studies to reproduce those in the article.