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Citing this toolkit

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BibTeX

@software{olcan2026biomedical,
  author       = {Olcan, Ceyhun},
  title        = {{biomedical-signal-forensics-lab}: An open-source
                  toolkit for auditing wearable physiological signal
                  pipelines},
  year         = {2026},
  version      = {v0.15.0},
  url          = {https://github.com/ceyhunolcan/biomedical-signal-forensics-lab},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.20349806}
}

DOIs

DOI Resolves to
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Plain text

Olcan, C. (2026). biomedical-signal-forensics-lab: An open-source toolkit for auditing wearable physiological signal pipelines (v0.15.0) [Computer software]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20349806

Citing the manuscript

The methods paper that this toolkit accompanies is in preparation (see the manuscript draft on GitHub). Once published, the canonical citation will be updated here and in CITATION.cff. Until then, please cite the software as above.

Citing the methods we build on

This toolkit reuses and audits methodologies from prior published work. If you use specific components, please also cite the originating paper:

  • Orphanidou et al. 2015 (signal-quality template matching): Orphanidou et al., IEEE J Biomed Health Inform 19(3):832-838.
  • Sukor et al. 2011 (PPG signal-quality decision tree): Sukor et al., Physiol Meas 32(4):369-384.
  • Elgendi 2016 (skewness, kurtosis, entropy SQIs): Elgendi, Bioengineering 3(4):21.
  • Schmidt et al. 2018 (WESAD dataset): Schmidt et al., ICMI 2018.
  • Full bibliographic details in paper/paper.bib.