BIDMC PPG and Respiration Dataset

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Version 1 - June 2018

When referencing this material, please cite:

Pimentel, M.A.F. et al. Towards a Robust Estimation of Respiratory Rate from Pulse Oximeters. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 64(8), pp.1914-1923, 2016. [DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2016.2613124](http://doi.org/10.1109/TBME.2016.2613124).

Please 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/content/101/23/e215]; 2000 (June 13). [bib]
@article{PhysioNet,
  author    = {Goldberger, Ary L. and Amaral, Luis A. N.
               and Glass, Leon and Hausdorff, Jeffrey M.
               and Ivanov, Plamen Ch. and Mark, Roger G.
               and Mietus, Joseph E. and Moody, George B.
               and Peng, Chung-Kang and Stanley, H. Eugene},
  title     = {{PhysioBank}, {PhysioToolkit}, and {PhysioNet}:
               Components of a New Research Resource for Complex
               Physiologic Signals},
  journal   = {Circulation},
  publisher = {American Heart Association, Inc.},
  volume    = {101},
  number    = {23},
  year      = {2000},
  month     = {June},
  pages     = {e215--e220},
  doi       = {10.1161/01.CIR.101.23.e215},
  issn      = {0009-7322},
  url       = {http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/101/23/e215}
}

Introduction

This dataset contains signals and numerics extracted from the much larger MIMIC II matched waveform Database, along with manual breath annotations made from two annotators, using the impedance respiratory signal.

Data Collection

The original data was acquired from critically-ill patients during hospital care at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre (Boston, MA, USA). Two annotators manually annotated individual breaths in each recording using the impedance respiratory signal. The 53 recordings within the dataset, each of 8-minute duration, each contain:

This dataset was first reported in the referenced publication, in which the data was used to evaluate the performance of different algorithms for estimating respiratory rate from the pulse oximetry, or photoplethysmogram (PPG) signal.

Data Files

The dataset is distributed in three formats:

  1. WFDB (WaveForm DataBase) format, which is the standard format used by PhysioNet.
  2. CSV (comma-separated-value) format
  3. Matlab (r) format, in a manner which is a compatible with the RRest Toolbox of respiratory rate algorithms

WFDB Format

Five files are provided for each recording (where ## is the subject number):

Further details on the contents of each file are provided here

CSV Format

Separate CSV files are provided for each recording (where ## is the subject number), containing:

Matlab (r) Format

The *bidmc_data.mat* file contains the following subset of the dataset in a single Matlab (r) variable named *data*. The following are provided for each of the 53 recordings:

Contributors

For more information about the dataset, please contact the authors at: marco.pimentel@eng.ox.ac.uk, peter.charlton@kcl.ac.uk.

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