Access database in Physionet's ptbdb by Matlab

Question

I set up the system first by

[old_path]=which(\'rdsamp\');if(~isempty(old_path)) rmpath(old_path(1:end-8)); end
wfdb_url=\'http://physionet.org/physiotools/m         


        

Answer 1

If you run physionetdb("ptdb",1) it will download the files to your computer. You will then be able to see the available records in the /ptdb/

Source: physionetdb function documentation. You are interested in the DoBatchDownload parameter.

After downloading it, I believe every command from the toolbox will check if you have the files locally before fetching from the server (as long as you give the function the correct path to the local files).