The MIT-BIH Arrhythmia Database contains 48 half-hour excerpts of two-channel ambulatory ECG recordings, obtained from 47 subjects studied by the BIH Arrhythmia Laboratory between 1975 and 1979. Twenty-three recordings were chosen at random from a set of 4000 24-hour ambulatory ECG recordings collected from a mixed population of inpatients (about 60%) and outpatients (about 40%) at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital; the remaining 25 recordings were selected from the same set to include less common but clinically significant arrhythmias that would not be well-represented in a small random sample.

This database includes 25 long-term ECG recordings of human subjects with atrial fibrillation (mostly paroxysmal).

This database includes 78 half-hour ECG recordings chosen to supplement the examples of supraventricular arrhythmias in the MIT-BIH Arrhythmia Database.

This database includes 25 long-term ECG recordings of human subjects with atrial fibrillation (mostly paroxysmal).

Of these, 23 records include the two ECG signals (in the .dat files); records 00735 and 03665 are represented only by the rhythm (.atr) and unaudited beat (.qrs annotation files.

The individual recordings are each 10 hours in duration, and contain two ECG signals each sampled at 250 samples per second with 12-bit resolution over a range of ±10 millivolts. The original analog recordings were made at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital (now the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center) using ambulatory ECG recorders with a typical recording bandwidth of approximately 0.1 Hz to 40 Hz. The rhythm annotation files (with the suffix .atr) were prepared manually; these contain rhythm annotations of types (AFIB (atrial fibrillation), (AFL (atrial flutter), (J (AV junctional rhythm), and (N (used to indicate all other rhythms). (The original rhythm annotation files, still available in the old directory, used AF, AFL, J, and N to mark these rhythms; the atr annotations in this directory have been revised for consistency with those used for the MIT-BIH Arrhythmia Database.) Beat annotation files (with the suffix .qrs) were prepared using an automated detector and have not been corrected manually. For some records, manually corrected beat annotation files (with the suffix .qrsc) are available. (The .qrs annotations may be useful for studies of methods for automated AF detection, where such methods must be robust with respect to typical QRS detection errors. The .qrsc annotations may be preferred for basic studies of AF itself, where QRS detection errors would be confounding.) Note that in both .qrs and .qrsc files, no distinction is made among beat types (all beats are labelled as if normal).

Five open ECG databases from PhysioNet are involved in this study namely the MIT-BIH arrhythmia database,St-Petersburg Institute of Cardiological Technics 12-lead Arrhythmia Database,The MIT-BIH Normal Sinus Rhythm Database,The MIT-BIH Long Term Database and European ST-T Database.

Dataset

This dataset was created by Pawan Kumar Gunjan

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Dataset

This dataset was created by Sathishkumar

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Full-length ECG time series data of 48 arrhythmic patients has been collected from popular MIT-BIH Arrhythmia Database (mitdb) (https://physionet.org/physiobank/database/mitdb/). The data sets include ECG time series data of 24 men aged between 32 to 89 years and of 22 women aged between 23 to 89 years. On the other hand, the normal data (healthy person) has been collected from MIT-BIH Normal Sinus Rhythm Database (nsrdb) (https://physionet.org/content/nstdb/1.0.0/) consisting of 18 long-term ECG signals of subjects having no significant arrhythmia. The subjects include 5 men and 13 women, aged between 26 to 45 and 20 to 50 respectively. The signal used here for the analysis is a modified limb lead II (MLII), obtained by placing the electrodes on the chest of the patients. We did not include the records of two patients with patient IDs 102 and 104 from MIT-BIH Arrhythmia Database as the required MLII data were not available due to surgical dressings on the above-mentioned patients. On the other hand, we also consider the data from ECG1 mode which are ECG signals (Normal Sinus Rhythm Database) relating to healthy persons and these data sets are regarded as complementary to MLII data of the arrhythmia database. Here, total no. of data points of each of the disease data series is 21600 with frequency 360.01 sec-1 whereas the same for the normal data series is 7680 with frequency 128 sec-1. Therefore, each of the data series is recorded for 60 sec time duration. A filter is utilized for processing of signals in order to selectively isolate a particular frequency or range of frequencies from an assortment of multiple frequencies in a signal. The choice of appropriate filter for processing of the system generated signals requires maximum noise reduction with minimal signal distortion. One of the best filters for noise clearing of biomedical data, including ECG signals, seems to be Savitzky–Golay (SG) filter. The fundamental principle of SG filter is to consider 2n + 1 equidistant points taking n = 0 as a center to represent a polynomial of degree p (where p<2n + 1). A set of points is to be fitted to some curve. For this purpose, SG filter computes the value of the least square polynomial (or its derivative) at a point, i = 0, over the decided frame range. This filter applies the method of linear least squares for data smoothing, which helps to maintain the original shape of the signal. A SG filter generally requires pre-determined values of order and frame depending on the frequency and length of the data. Usually, trial and error method or prior experience is required to decide the satisfactory values of parameters. Here, the values of “Frame” for diseased and normal data were assumed to be 37 and 13 respectively and the “Order” of the filter were 3 for each type of data sets. The ‘Table SI’ contains the filtered data sets for both type of disease and normal subject.

This database includes 22 half-hour ECG recordings of subjects who experienced episodes of sustained ventricular tachycardia, ventricular flutter, and ventricular fibrillation.

Accuracy of different classification methods in the MIT-BIH ECG signal database test set at different compression ratios.

Patient-based splitting strategy for the MIT-BIH dataset.

ECGs from the MIT-NSR database with some modifications to make them more suitable as playground data set for machine learning. all 18 ECGs are trimmed to approx. 50000 heart beats from a region without recording errors scaled to a range -1 to 1 (non-linear/tanh) heart beats annotation as time series with value 1.0 at the point of the annotated beat and 0.0 for all other times additional heart beat column smoothed by applying a gaussian filter provided as csv with columns "time in sec", "channel 1", "channel 2", "beat" and "smooth" an example that uses the dataset to implement heart-beat detection can be found here: Heart beat detection with Peephole LSTM. Original data set description: MIT-BIH Normal Sinus Rhythm Database George Moody, Published: Aug. 3, 1999. Version: 1.0.0 This database includes 18 long-term ECG recordings of subjects referred to the Arrhythmia Laboratory at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital (now the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center). Subjects included in this database were found to have had no significant arrhythmias; they include 5 men, aged 26 to 45, and 13 women, aged 20 to 50. DOI: https://doi.org/10.13026/C2NK5R Link: https://www.physionet.org/content/nsrdb/1.0.0/ Ref: Goldberger, A., Amaral, L., Glass, L., Hausdorff, J., Ivanov, P. C., Mark, R., ... & Stanley, H. E. (2000). PhysioBank, PhysioToolkit, and PhysioNet: Components of a new research resource for complex physiologic signals. Circulation [Online]. 101 (23), pp. e215–e220. {"references": ["Goldberger, A., Amaral, L., Glass, L., Hausdorff, J., Ivanov, P. C., Mark, R., ... & Stanley, H. E. (2000). PhysioBank, PhysioToolkit, and PhysioNet: Components of a new research resource for complex physiologic signals. Circulation [Online]. 101 (23), pp. e215\u2013e220."]}

This dataset is composed of two collections of heartbeat signals derived from two famous PhysioNet datasets in heartbeat classification, the MIT-BIH Arrhythmia Dataset and the PTB Diagnostic ECG Database. The number of samples in both collections is large enough for training a deep neural network.

This dataset has been used in exploring heartbeat classification using deep neural network architectures, and observing some of the capabilities of transfer learning on it. The signals correspond to electrocardiogram (ECG) shapes of heartbeats for the normal case and the cases affected by different arrhythmias and myocardial infarction. These signals are preprocessed and segmented, with each segment corresponding to a heartbeat.

An electrocardiograph (ECG) is widely used in diagnosis and prediction of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). The traditional ECG classification methods have complex signal processing phases that leads to expensive designs. This paper provides a deep learning (DL) based system that employs the convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for classification of ECG signals present in PhysioNet MIT-BIH Arrhythmia database. The proposed system implements 1-D convolutional deep residual neural network (ResNet) model that performs feature extraction by directly using the input heartbeats. We have used synthetic minority oversampling technique (SMOTE) that process class-imbalance problem in the training dataset and effectively classifies the five heartbeat types in the test dataset. The classifier’s performance is evaluated with ten-fold cross validation (CV) using accuracy, precision, sensitivity, F1-score, and kappa. We have obtained an average accuracy of 98.63%, precision of 92.86%, sensitivity of 92.41%, and specificity of 99.06%. The average F1-score and Kappa obtained were 92.63% and 95.5% respectively. The study shows that proposed ResNet performs well with deep layers compared to other 1-D CNNs.

Heartbeats classes of MIT-BIH arrhythmia databases.

Brno University of Technology ECG Signal Database with Annotations of P Wave (BUT PDB) is an ECG signal database with marked peaks of P waves created by the cardiology team at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Brno University of Technology. The database consists of 50 2-minute 2-lead ECG signal records with various types of pathology. The ECGs were selected from three existing databases of ECG signal - the MIT-BIH Arrhythmia Database, the MIT-BIH Supraventricular Arrhythmia Database, and the Long Term AF Database. The P waves positions were manually annotated by two ECG experts in all 50 records. Each record contains also annotation of positions and types of QRS complexes (from original database) and dominant diagnosis (pathology) present in record. This database is created for the development, evaluation and objective comparison of P wave detection algorithms.

Arrhythmia is a life-threatening cardiac condition characterized by irregular heart rhythm. Early and accurate detection is crucial for effective treatment. However, single-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) methods have limited sensitivity and specificity. This study propose an improved ensemble learning approach for arrhythmia detection using multi-lead ECG data. Proposed method, based on a boosting algorithm, namely Fine Tuned Boosting (FTBO) model detects multiple arrhythmia classes. For the feature extraction, introduce a new technique that utilizes a sliding window with a window size of 5 R-peaks. This study compared it with other models, including bagging and stacking, and assessed the impact of parameter tuning. Rigorous experiments on the MIT-BIH arrhythmia database focused on Premature Ventricular Contraction (PVC), Atrial Premature Contraction (PAC), and Atrial Fibrillation (AF) have been performed. The results showed that the proposed method achieved high sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy for all three classes of arrhythmia. It accurately detected Atrial Fibrillation (AF) with 100% sensitivity and specificity. For Premature Ventricular Contraction (PVC) detection, it achieved 99% sensitivity and specificity in both leads. Similarly, for Atrial Premature Contraction (PAC) detection, proposed method achieved almost 96% sensitivity and specificity in both leads. The proposed method shows great potential for early arrhythmia detection using multi-lead ECG data.

Abstract Lobachevsky University Electrocardiography Database (LUDB) is an ECG signal database with marked boundaries and peaks of P, T waves and QRS complexes. The database consists of 200 10-second 12-lead ECG signal records representing different morphologies of the ECG signal. The ECGs were collected from healthy volunteers and patients of the Nizhny Novgorod City Hospital No 5 in 2017–2018. The patients had various cardiovascular diseases while some of them had pacemakers. The boundaries of P, T waves and QRS complexes were manually annotated by cardiologists for all 200 records. Also, each record is annotated with the corresponding diagnosis. The database can be used for educational purposes as well as for training and testing algorithms for ECG delineation, i.e. for automatic detection of boundaries and peaks of P, T waves and QRS complexes.

Background Validating ECG delineation algorithms requires standardized databases with complexes and waves, manually annotated by specialists. Several collections are currently available: MIT-BIH Arrhythmia Database [1], European ST-T Database [2], and QT Database [3], however their annotation is not exhaustive. For example, MIT-BIH Arrhythmia Database and European ST-T Database has a markup only for QRS complexes. The QT Database contains annotations for P, QRS and T waves, but several complexes are unmarked. By assembling a new ECG database at Lobachevsky University (LUDB), we sought to eliminate these shortcomings.

Methods ECG 10 seconds records were obtained by the Schiller Cardiovit AT-101 cardiograph, with conventional 12 leads (i, ii, iii, avr, avl, avf, v1, v2, v3, v4, v5, v6). Signals are digitized at 500 samples per second. The boundaries and peaks of P, T waves and QRS complexes were determined by certified cardiologists by an eye inspection of each ECG signal and independently for each of 12 leads. The records were made by specialized medical staff (functional diagnostics nurses). All volunteers provided informed written consent before collecting the data. The research was approved by Lobachevsky University IRB (#23; 19 October 2017).

Data Description The database consists of 200 10-second 12-lead ECG signal records collected from 2017 to 2018: in total, 16797 P waves, 21966 QRS complexes, 19666 T waves (in total, 58429 annotated waves). The age of all volunteers ranged from a minimum of 11 years old to a maximum of >89 years old with an average 52 years old while the distribution by gender was 85 women and 115 men.

The number of records with specified heart rate types in the dataset:

Rhythms	Number of ECGs
Sinus rhythm	143
Sinus tachycardia	4
Sinus bradycardia	25
Sinus arrhythmia	8
Irregular sinus rhythm 2
Abnormal rhythm	19

The number of records with specified types of the position of the electrical axis of the heart:

Electric axis of the heart	Number of ECGs
Normal	75
Left axis deviation	66
Vertical	26
Horizontal	20
Right axis deviation	3
Undetermined	10

The number of records with specified types of conduction abnormalities:

Conduction abnormalities	Number of ECGs
Sinoatrial blockade, undetermined	1
I degree AV block	10
III degree AV-block	5
Incomplete right bundle branch block	29
Incomplete left bundle branch block	6
Left anterior hemiblock	16
Complete right bundle branch block	4
Complete left bundle branch block	4
Non-specific intravintricular conduction delay	4

The numbers of records with specified types of extrasystolies:

Extrasystolies	Number of ECGs
Atrial extrasystole, undetermined	2
Atrial extrasystole, low atrial	1
Atrial extrasystole, left atrial	2
Atrial extrasystole, SA-nodal extrasystole	3
Atrial extrasystole, type: single PAC	4
Atrial extrasystole, type: bigemini	1
Atrial extrasystole, type: quadrigemini	1
Atrial extrasystole, type: allorhythmic pattern	1
Ventricular extrasystole, morphology: polymorphic	2
Ventricular extrasystole, localisation: RVOT, anterior wall	3
Ventricular extrasystole, localisation: RVOT, antero-septal part	1
Ventricular extrasystole, localisation: IVS, middle part	1
Ventricular extrasystole, localisation: LVOT, LVS	2
Ventricular extrasystole, localisation: LV, undefined	1
Ventricular extrasystole, type: single PVC	6
Ventricular extrasystole, type: intercalary PVC	2
Ventricular extrasystole, type: couplet	2

The number of records with specified types of hypertrophies:

Hypertrophies	Number of ECGs
Right atrial hypertrophy	1
Left atrial hypertrophy	102
Right atrial overload	17
Left atrial overload	11
Left ventricular hypertrophy	108
Right ventricular hypertrophy	3
Left ventricular overload	11

The number of records with cardiac pacing:

Cardiac pacing	Number of ECGs
UNIpolar atrial pacing	1
UNIpolar ventricular pacing	6
BIpolar ventricular pacing	2
Biventricular pacing	1
P-synchrony	2

The number of records with ischemia:

Ischemia	Number of ECGs
STEMI: anterior wall	8
STEMI: lateral wall	7
STEMI: septal	8
STEMI: inferior wall	1
STEMI: apical	5
Ischemia: anterior wall	5
Ischemia: lateral wall	8
Ischemia: septal	4
Ischemia: inferior wall	10
Ischemia: posterior wall	2
Ischemia: apical	6
Scar formation: lateral wall	3
Scar formation: septal	9
Scar formation: inferior wall	3
Scar formation: posterior wall	6
Scar formation: apical	5
Undefined ischemia/scar/supp.NSTEMI: anterior wall	12
Undefined ischemia/scar/supp.NSTEMI: lateral wall	16
Undefined ischemia/scar/supp.NSTEMI: septal	5
Undefined ischemia/scar/supp.NSTEMI: inferior wall	3
Undefined ischemia/scar/supp.NSTEMI: posterior wall	4
Undefined ischemia/scar/supp.NSTEMI: apical	11

The number of records with non-specific repolarization abnormalities:

Non-specific repolarization abnormalities	Number of ECGs
Anterior wall	18
Lateral wall	13
Septal	15
Inferior wall	19
Posterior wall	9
Apical	11

The number of records with other cases:

Other states	Number of ECGs
Early repolarization syndrome	9

The MIT-Physio AFib ECG Database is a comprehensive integrated resource that combines two of the most frequently used datasets for atrial fibrillation research: the MIT‑BIH AFib Database and the PhysioNet/Computing in Cardiology Challenge 2017 dataset. This resource includes 25 long-term 10‑hour recordings with dual-channel ECG signals (recorded at 250 Hz with 12‑bit resolution over ±10 mV) as well as short single‑lead ECG recordings (ranging from 30 to 60 seconds at 300 Hz). Each recording is accompanied by detailed rhythm annotations (.atr files) and automated beat annotations (.qrs files), with some records including manually corrected beat annotations (.qrsc files). The dataset is designed to support robust, state‑of‑the‑art research in atrial fibrillation (AF) detection by providing high‑quality, well‑annotated data that captures the complexity and variability of ECG signals. Researchers using this resource are encouraged to address challenges such as noise contamination, inter‑patient variability, and the episodic nature of AF. When using the MIT‑Physio AFib ECG Database, please cite Moody and Mark (1983) and include the standard PhysioNet citation (Goldberger et al., 2000). This integrated dataset offers a unique and scalable platform for developing and validating advanced AF detection algorithms.

Introduction The China Physiological Signal Challenge 2019 (CPSC 2019) aims to encourage the development of algorithms for challenging QRS detection and heart rate (HR) estimation from short-term single-lead ECG recordings usually with low signal quality and/or abnormal rhythm waveforms.

ECG signal provides an important role in non-invasively monitoring and clinical diagnosis for cardiovascular disease (CVD). Detection of QRS complex is an essential step for ECG signal processing, and can benefit the following HR calculation and abnormal situation analysis. Although detection methods of QRS complex have been severely tracked throughout the last several decades, accurate QRS location and HR estimation are still challenging in noisy signal episode or abnormal rhythm waveforms, especially when the ECG recordings are from the wearable dynamic ECG acquisition. It is true that many of the developed QRS detection algorithms can achieve high accuracy (over 99% in sensitivity and positive predictivity) when tested over the standard ECG databases such as MIT-BIH Arrhythmia Database or AHA Database [1]. However, these algorithms may not be able to perform well when used in the daily life environment that will cause severe noises and significantly reduce the signal quality. A recent study confirmed that none of the common QRS algorithms can obtain 80% detection accuracy when tested in a common dynamic noisy ECG database [2]. Thus, in this challenge, we provide a new ECG database containing noisy ECG episodes and/or signals with different arrhythmia patterns, encouraging participants to develop more efficient and robust algorithms QRS detection and HR estimation. In addition, it is worth to note that, although HR can be calculated from the detection results of QRS complexes, HR can be still estimated without QRS detection step [3,4].

Challenge Data Training data consists of 2,000 single-lead ECG recordings collected from patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD), each of the recording last for 10 s. Test set contains similar ECG recordings of same lengths, which is unavailable to public and will remain private for the purpose of scoring for the duration of the Challenge and for some period afterwards. ECG recordings were obtained from multiple sources using a variety of instrumentation, although in all cases they are presented as 500 Hz sample rate here. All recordings were provided in MATLAB format (each including two .mat file: one is ECG data and another one is the corresponding QRS annotation file). Pan &Tompkins (P&T) algorithm [5,6] is also provided as benchmark or comparable algorithm.

Although QRS detection and HR estimation are widely studied by lots of researchers for many years, accurate detection is still really challenging in this Challenge due to the QRS amplitude variation, QRS morphological variation, and occurrence of intense variability in the intervals between beats, different arrhythmias, as well as noises.

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