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This database includes 35 eight-minute ECG recordings of human subjects who experienced episodes of sustained ventricular tachycardia, ventricular flutter, and ventricular fibrillation.

RR interval time series, recorded by implanted cardioverter defibrillators in 78 subjects.

CVSim is a lumped-parameter model of the human cardiovascular system that has been developed and used for research and for teaching quantitative physiology courses at MIT and Harvard Medical School since 1984. The versions presented here have a grap…

The aim of Challenge 2007 is to establish how well one can characterize the location and extent of moderate to large, relatively compact infarcts using electrocardiographic evidence (supplemented by a model of the torso geometry and conductivity), i…

The seventh annual PhysioNet/Computers in Cardiology Challenge addresses a question of high clinical interest: Can the QT interval be measured by fully automated methods with an accuracy acceptable for clinical evaluations?

The wfdb-swig package provides interfaces between the WFDB library and software written in a variety of other languages, so that such software can have access to the full range of capabilities supported by current and future versions of the WFDB lib…

Our popular series of challenges presented in cooperation with Computers in Cardiology continues this year in a new mode. Participants are invited to choose one of the five previous challenges as a topic for a follow-up study:

• Detecting sleep apn…

Two-channel ambulatory ECG recordings, obtained from 47 subjects studied by the BIH Arrhythmia Laboratory between 1975 and 1979.

Puka calculates descriptive statistics such as heart rate variability (HRV), peak-valley respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA), and respiratory variables from EKG and strain gauge respiration data.

Sample Entropy is a useful tool for investigating the dynamics of heart rate and other time series. Sample Entropy is the negative natural logarithm of an estimate of the conditional probability that subseries (epochs) of length m that match pointwi…