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Challenge Open Access

Is the normal heart rate chaotic?

George Moody

In its June 2008 issue, the editors of Chaos announced a new feature, "Controversial Topics in Nonlinear Dynamics". The first controversial topic to be aired is "Is the Normal Heart Rate Chaotic?". This project provides data to explore this question.

Published: Oct. 30, 2008. Version: 1.0.0

Software Open Access

Estimating Activity from Instantaneous Heart Rate

Using only a heart rate time series, it is possible to measure a number of features that reflect the level of physical activity. Here we provide software for deriving an "activity index" based on measurements of mean heart rate, total powe…

activity heart rate

Published: April 18, 2002. Version: 1.0.0

Database Open Access

SCG-RHC: Wearable Seismocardiogram Signal and Right Heart Catheter Database

Michael Chan, Liviu Klein, Joanna Fan, et al.

This is the first public dataset that contains simultaneous recordings of Right Heart Catheter data (pressure) and chest-worn wearable patch data (electrocardiogram and seismocardiogram signals).

Published: March 31, 2023. Version: 1.0.0

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Database Open Access

Motion and heart rate from a wrist-worn wearable and labeled sleep from polysomnography

Olivia Walch

Motion data and heart rate measurements from Apple Watches from sleeping people undergoing polysomnography.

sleep polysomnography

Published: Oct. 8, 2019. Version: 1.0.0

Challenge Open Access

Robust Detection of Heart Beats in Multimodal Data: The PhysioNet/Computing in Cardiology Challenge 2014

This challenge aims to encourage the exploration of robust methods for locating heart beats in continuous long-term data from bedside monitors and similar devices that record not only ECG but usually other physiologic signals as well, including puls…

multiparameter challenge ecg

Published: Jan. 7, 2014. Version: 1.0.0

Database Open Access

MUSIC (Sudden Cardiac Death in Chronic Heart Failure)

Alba Martin-Yebra, Juan Pablo Martínez, Pablo Laguna

The MUSIC study is a prospective, multicentre, longitudinal study designed to assess risk predictors of cardiac mortality and sudden cardiac death in ambulatory patients with chronic heart failure.

Published: Jan. 24, 2025. Version: 1.0.1

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Database Open Access

Respiratory and heart rate monitoring dataset from aeration study

Ella Frances Sophia Guy, Isaac Flett, Jaimey Anne Clifton, et al.

Respiratory and cardiovascular data collected from 20 subjects. Pressure, flow, aeration, and heart-rate data were collected during trials which included resting breathing, CPAP at varied PEEP settings, breath-holds, and forced expiratory manoeuvres.

Published: March 20, 2024. Version: 1.0.0

Database Open Access

Indian Institute of Science Fetal Heart Sound Database (IIScFHSDB)

Amrutha Bhaskaran, Manish Arora

The IIScFHSDB has 60 fetal phonocardiography recordings obtained in a hospital setting with the objective to provide fPCG recordings with clinical noise settings for development of signal processing algorithms for FHR determination and denoising fPCG

1 fetal heart sound 2 fhr

Published: Sept. 15, 2022. Version: 1.0

Database Open Access

Shiraz University Fetal Heart Sounds Database

Reza Sameni, Maryam Samieinasab

The Shiraz University (SU) fetal heart sounds database (SUFHSDB) contains fetal and maternal phonocardiogram (PCG) recordings from 109 pregnant women in single and twin pregnancies.

pregnancy phonocardiography fetal cardiography cardiotocography

Published: Jan. 8, 2021. Version: 1.0.1

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Challenge Open Access

Classification of Heart Sound Recordings: The PhysioNet/Computing in Cardiology Challenge 2016

The 2016 PhysioNet/CinC Challenge aims to encourage the development of algorithms to classify heart sound recordings collected from a variety of clinical or nonclinical (such as in-home visits) environments. The aim is to identify, from a single sho…

sound heart challenge phonocardiogram

Published: March 4, 2016. Version: 1.0.0