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Challenge Open Access

Reducing False Arrhythmia Alarms in the ICU: The PhysioNet/Computing in Cardiology Challenge 2015

The 2015 PhysioNet/CinC Challenge aims to encourage the development of algorithms to reduce the incidence of false alarms in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).

false alarm multiparameter icu challenge arrhythmia critical care tachycardia

Published: Feb. 15, 2015. Version: 1.0.0

Database Open Access

St Petersburg INCART 12-lead Arrhythmia Database

Annotated ECG recordings extracted from 32 Holter records.

holter arrhythmia ecg

Published: May 1, 2008. Version: 1.0.0

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Database Open Access

VTaC: A Benchmark Dataset of Ventricular Tachycardia Alarms from ICU Monitors

Li-wei Lehman, Benjamin Moody, Lucas McCullum, et al.

VTaC is an annotated ventricular tachycardia (VT) arrhythmia alarm database containing over 5,000 waveform recordings with VT alarms from ICU monitors, with each alarm labeled as either true or false by at least two human expert annotators.

arrhythmia machine learning icu false alarms benchmark dataset ventricular tachycardia

Published: Oct. 1, 2024. Version: 1.0

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Software Open Access

Software for computing Heart Rate Fragmentation

Madalena Costa

Heart rate fragmentation: a new method for the analysis of cardiac interbeat interval time series. The code provided can be run in Windows, Mac and Linux machines.

heart rate variability aging cardiovascular disease vagal tone time series analysis prediction of atrial fibrillation cardiac autonomic function prediction of cardiovascular events prediction of cognitive decline heart rate fragmentation

Published: Feb. 14, 2024. Version: 1.0.0

Database Open Access

Brno University of Technology ECG Signal Database with Annotations of P Wave (BUT PDB)

Lucie Maršánová, Andrea Nemcova, Radovan Smisek, et al.

BUT PDB is an ECG signal database with marked peaks of P waves created for the development, and objective comparison of P wave detection algorithms. The database consists of 50 2-minute 2-lead ECG signal records with various types of pathology.

p wave ecg

Published: Jan. 19, 2021. Version: 1.0.0

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Database Open Access

CAST RR Interval Sub-Study Database

Data from the Cardiac Arrhythmia Suppression Trial (CAST), a study designed to test the hypothesis that suppression of ventricular premature complexes would improve survival.

interbeat rr interval

Published: July 2, 2004. Version: 1.0.0

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Database Open Access

MIT-BIH Normal Sinus Rhythm Database

Long-term ECG recordings of 18 subjects referred to the Arrhythmia Laboratory at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital.

sinus normal ecg

Published: Aug. 3, 1999. Version: 1.0.0

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Database Open Access

Brugada-HUCA: 12-Lead ECG Recordings for the Study of Brugada Syndrome

Nahuel Costa Cortez, Daniel Garcia Iglesias

Brugada syndrome is a rare but potentially life-threatening cardiac arrhythmia disorder, with an elevated risk of sudden cardiac death. This dataset introduces 12-lead ECG recordings gather to support the study of this rare disease.

Published: Feb. 2, 2026. Version: 1.0.0

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Software Open Access

PhysioTag: An Open-Source Platform for Collaborative Annotation of Physiological Waveforms

Lucas McCullum, Benjamin Moody, Hasan Saeed, et al.

Platform for collaborative and interactive annotation of physiological waveform data.

annotation

Published: April 25, 2023. Version: 1.0.0

Challenge Open Access

Classification of 12-lead ECGs: The PhysioNet/Computing in Cardiology Challenge 2020

Erick Andres Perez Alday, Annie Gu, Amit Shah, et al.

The goal of the 2020 PhysioNet - Computing in Cardiology Challenge is to design and implement a working, open-source algorithm that can automatically identify cardiac abnormalities in 12-lead ECG recordings.

Published: July 29, 2022. Version: 1.0.2

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