This database is described in
Petrutiu S, Sahakian AV, Swiryn S. Abrupt changes in fibrillatory wave characteristics at the termination of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation in humans. Europace 9:466-470 (2007).
Please cite this publication when referencing this material, and also include the standard citation for PhysioNet:
Goldberger AL, Amaral LAN, Glass L, Hausdorff JM, Ivanov PCh, Mark RG, Mietus JE, Moody GB, Peng C-K, Stanley HE. PhysioBank, PhysioToolkit, and PhysioNet: Components of a New Research Resource for Complex Physiologic Signals. Circulation 101(23):e215-e220 [Circulation Electronic Pages; http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/full/101/23/e215]; 2000 (June 13).

This database includes 84 long-term ECG recordings of subjects with paroxysmal or sustained atrial fibrillation (AF). Each record contains two simultaneously recorded ECG signals digitized at 128 Hz with 12-bit resolution over a 20 mV range; record durations vary but are typically 24 to 25 hours. The qrs annotations were produced by an automated QRS detector; all detected beats (including occasional ventricular ectopic beats) were labelled N.
The AF Termination Challenge Database consists of 80 one-minute excerpts of a subset of these records (those numbered 00 through 75). As a guide to selecting the excerpts, "T" annotations were inserted manually in the qrs annotation files of this subset of the records, to mark spontaneous terminations of AF episodes with durations of at least one minute.
The original recordings were collected and contributed to PhysioNet by Steven Swiryn and his colleagues at Northwestern University. They were digitized and automatically annotated at Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Steven Swiryn and George Moody annotated the AF terminations.
Segments from this database were used in:
Moody GB. Spontaneous Termination of Atrial Fibrillation: A Challenge from PhysioNet and Computers in Cardiology 2004, Computers in Cardiology 31:101-104 (2004).
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ANNOTATORS 19-Sep-2007 16:01 75 list of annotators
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