Debian Med Tools packages

EDFbrowser is a viewer for medical timeseries storage files containing data such as EEG, EMG, and ECG signals. It supports EDF(+) and BDF(+) file formats. Apart from viewing the files, it also supports some editing operations and can convert the biomedical files to other formats.

This package contains a German medical dictionary for use with the hunspell spellchecker which is currently used within OpenOffice.org2 and as an ispell clone.

This package contains an English medical dictionary for use with the hunspell spell checker which is currently used by OpenOffice.org2

Periodic Calendar is a GUI application which assists in women menstrual cycles tracking and fertility periods prediction. This information can be used as supportive either for conception or contraception planning.

Periodic Calendar provides support for BBT and sympto-thermal methods which have the highest reliability in fertility periods prediction. User can choose any subset of the features to be used or even fall to the generic calendar method (which if used alone is very unreliable).

Authors of the Periodic Calendar still insist on not being an equal substitute to the fertility planning consultants or doctors. Before using this application please talk to your doctor or read a good book on the subject.

THE PREDICTIONS MADE BY THIS PROGRAM CAN BE NEVER BE CONSIDERED AS FINAL. THE METHODS USED ARE NOT 100% EFFECTIVE FOR ALL WOMEN.

Pondus keeps track of your body weight and, optionally, the percentage of bodyfat, muscle and water. It aims to be simple to use, lightweight and fast. All data can be plotted to get a quick overview of the history of your weight. A simple weight planner allows one to define "target weights" and this plan can be compared with the actual measurements in a plot.

CLIPS is an expert system shell / inference engine written by NASA (see Debian package clips).

pyclips are the Python bindings to that engine.

QuitCount is a simple counter that shows what you spared since you quit smoking. Once you tell it the date you quit, how much you smoked, and how much it cost, it'll tell you how many cigarettes you didn't smoke since, and how much it makes in terms of money, tar, and life expectancy.

This package provides the file /usr/share/dict/german-medical containing a list of German medical words. This list can be used by spelling checkers, and by programs such as look(1).

Workrave is a program that assists in the recovery and prevention of Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI). The program frequently alerts you to take micro-pauses, rest breaks and restricts you to your daily limit.

It includes a system tray applet that works with GNOME and KDE and has network capabilities to monitor your activity even if switching back and forth between different computers is part of your job.

Workrave offers many more configuration options than other similar tools.

This library has functions for querying the PubMed medical literature database and parsing the XML results into Common Lisp objects. This package uses the cl-aserve for HTTP fetches.

Cycle is a calendar for women. Given a cycle length or statistics for several periods, it can calculate the days until menstruation, the days of "safe" sex, the fertile period, and the days to ovulations, and define the d.o.b. of a child. It allows the user to write notes and helps to supervise the administration of hormonal contraceptive tablets.

Possibilities of the program:

• Calculate days of menstruation, based on the length of the cycle or on statistics of previous periods.
• Calculate days of "safe" sex, fertile period and day to ovulations.
• Definition of D.O.B. (Date Of Birth) of a child
• Allows to write notes.
• Helps to supervise reception of hormonal contraceptive tablets.
• Multiple users allowed. Data is protected by a password for every user.

NOTE: This program is not a reliable contraceptive method. It does neither help to prevent sexual transmision diseases like AIDS. It is just an electronic means of keeping track of some of your medical data and extract some statistical conclusions from them. You cannot consider this program as a substitute for your gynecologist in any way.

Entangle provides a graphical interface for "tethered shooting", aka taking photographs with a digital camera completely controlled from the computer.

Using Entangle is as easy as 1,2,3...

• Connect camera
• Launch Entangle
• Shoot photos

With a sufficiently capable digital SLR camera Entangle allows:

• Trigger the shutter from the computer
• Live preview of scene before shooting
• Automatic download and display of photos as they are shot
• Control of all camera settings from computer

Mencal is a menstruation calendar written in Perl.

It is a simple variation of the well-known Unix command cal. The main difference is that you can have some periodically repeating days highlighted in color. This can be used to track menstruation (or other) cycles conveniently.

Author: C. McCohy mccohy@kyberdigi.cz

MSSStest is a program for implementing the method described in the article The Multiple Sclerosis Severity Score. R. Roxburgh S. Seaman et al. (2004), accepted for publication by Neurology. It calculates MSSS scores and uses these scores to test for differences between disease progression rates in different groups defined by genotype at some locus. A brief description of the method is given below.