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The MIT-BIH Malignant Ventricular Arrhythmia Database

This database is described in

Greenwald SD. Development and analysis of a ventricular fibrillation detector. M.S. thesis, MIT Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1986.

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 22 half-hour ECG recordings of subjects who experienced episodes of sustained ventricular tachycardia, ventricular flutter, and ventricular fibrillation. The reference annotation (.atr) files contain only rhythm labels (no beat labels); see this note for a key.

Further reading

Greenwald SD, Albrecht P, Moody GB, Mark RG. Estimating confidence limits for arrhythmia detector performance. Computers in Cardiology 1985; 12:383-386. 
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[   ] 418.dat                 10-Aug-1992 01:03  1.5M  digitized signal(s)
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[XWS] 418.xws                 13-Dec-1999 00:33   88   WAVEScript
[   ] 419.atr                 10-Aug-1992 01:03  806   reference annotations
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[   ] 420.atr                 10-Aug-1992 01:03  132   reference annotations
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[   ] 421.atr                 10-Aug-1992 01:03  1.4K  reference annotations
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[   ] 422.atr                 10-Aug-1992 01:03  442   reference annotations
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[   ] 423.atr                 10-Aug-1992 01:03  184   reference annotations
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[   ] 426.atr                 10-Aug-1992 01:03  256   reference annotations
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[   ] 426.hea                 06-Apr-2008 01:05   94   header file
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[   ] 427.atr                 10-Aug-1992 01:03   40   reference annotations
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[   ] 427.hea                 06-Apr-2008 01:05   94   header file
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[   ] 428.atr                 10-Aug-1992 01:03  114   reference annotations
[   ] 428.dat                 10-Aug-1992 01:03  1.5M  digitized signal(s)
[   ] 428.hea                 06-Apr-2008 01:05   94   header file
[   ] 428.hea-                10-Aug-1992 01:03  128   header file
[XWS] 428.xws                 13-Dec-1999 00:33   88   WAVEScript
[   ] 429.atr                 10-Aug-1992 01:03  322   reference annotations
[   ] 429.dat                 10-Aug-1992 01:03  1.5M  digitized signal(s)
[   ] 429.hea                 06-Apr-2008 01:05   95   header file
[   ] 429.hea-                10-Aug-1992 01:03  129   header file
[XWS] 429.xws                 13-Dec-1999 00:33   88   WAVEScript
[   ] 430.atr                 10-Aug-1992 01:03  492   reference annotations
[   ] 430.dat                 10-Aug-1992 01:03  1.5M  digitized signal(s)
[   ] 430.hea                 06-Apr-2008 01:05   94   header file
[   ] 430.hea-                10-Aug-1992 01:03  128   header file
[XWS] 430.xws                 13-Dec-1999 00:33   88   WAVEScript
[   ] 602.atr                 10-Aug-1992 01:03  152   reference annotations
[   ] 602.dat                 10-Aug-1992 01:03  1.5M  digitized signal(s)
[   ] 602.hea                 06-Apr-2008 01:05   91   header file
[   ] 602.hea-                10-Aug-1992 01:03  125   header file
[XWS] 602.xws                 13-Dec-1999 00:33   88   WAVEScript
[   ] 605.atr                 10-Aug-1992 01:03   46   reference annotations
[   ] 605.dat                 10-Aug-1992 01:03  1.5M  digitized signal(s)
[   ] 605.hea                 06-Apr-2008 01:05   91   header file
[   ] 605.hea-                10-Aug-1992 01:03  125   header file
[XWS] 605.xws                 13-Dec-1999 00:33   88   WAVEScript
[   ] 607.atr                 10-Aug-1992 01:03  142   reference annotations
[   ] 607.dat                 10-Aug-1992 01:03  1.5M  digitized signal(s)
[   ] 607.hea                 06-Apr-2008 01:05   93   header file
[   ] 607.hea-                10-Aug-1992 01:03  127   header file
[XWS] 607.xws                 13-Dec-1999 00:33   88   WAVEScript
[   ] 609.atr                 10-Aug-1992 01:03  178   reference annotations
[   ] 609.dat                 10-Aug-1992 01:03  1.5M  digitized signal(s)
[   ] 609.hea                 06-Apr-2008 01:05   92   header file
[   ] 609.hea-                10-Aug-1992 01:03  126   header file
[XWS] 609.xws                 13-Dec-1999 00:33   88   WAVEScript
[   ] 610.atr                 10-Aug-1992 01:03  396   reference annotations
[   ] 610.dat                 10-Aug-1992 01:03  1.5M  digitized signal(s)
[   ] 610.hea                 06-Apr-2008 01:05   95   header file
[   ] 610.hea-                10-Aug-1992 01:03  129   header file
[XWS] 610.xws                 13-Dec-1999 00:33   88   WAVEScript
[   ] 611.atr                 10-Aug-1992 01:03   26   reference annotations
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[   ] 611.hea                 06-Apr-2008 01:05   93   header file
[   ] 611.hea-                10-Aug-1992 01:03  127   header file
[   ] 611.qrs                 15-Jul-2002 18:23  8.0K  unaudited annotations
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[   ] 612.atr                 10-Aug-1992 01:03   24   reference annotations
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[   ] 614.atr                 10-Aug-1992 01:03  276   reference annotations
[   ] 614.dat                 10-Aug-1992 01:03  1.5M  digitized signal(s)
[   ] 614.hea                 06-Apr-2008 01:05   93   header file
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[XWS] 614.xws                 13-Dec-1999 00:33   88   WAVEScript
[   ] 615.atr                 10-Aug-1992 01:03  150   reference annotations
[   ] 615.dat                 10-Aug-1992 01:03  1.5M  digitized signal(s)
[   ] 615.hea                 06-Apr-2008 01:05   94   header file
[   ] 615.hea-                10-Aug-1992 01:03  128   header file
[XWS] 615.xws                 13-Dec-1999 00:33   88   WAVEScript
[   ] ANNOTATORS              14-Oct-2000 04:39   33   list of annotators
[   ] MD5SUMS                 13-Jul-2005 09:27  3.8K  
[   ] RECORDS                 29-Mar-2000 17:13   88   list of record names
[   ] SHA1SUMS                13-Jul-2005 09:28  4.5K  
[   ] SHA256SUMS              18-Sep-2007 18:40  6.9K  
[TXT] annotations.shtml       06-Jan-2012 04:02  2.2K
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