The MIT-BIH Arrhythmia Database CD-ROM Third Edition, May 1997 Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology

Copyright © Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1997. All rights reserved.

Catalog of documents

Follow the links below for information about the MIT-BIH Arrhythmia Database and this disk.

The links in this group lead to files on this CD-ROM:

• Orientation for the first-time user.
• About this CD-ROM
  This document describes the contents of this CD-ROM. It includes a guide to the files on this disk.
• A brief introduction to the software on this disk. There are also platform-specific installation guides for Linux, Macintosh, MS-DOS/MS-Windows, and UNIX users.
• MIT-BIH Arrhythmia Database Directory
  This directory describes how the database was created, and contains comprehensive statistics. The printed version contains annotated full-disclosure plots of the entire database and selected high-resolution ``chart recordings'' of interesting segments. The on-line version contains hyperlinks to these segments (following these links requires WAVE, see below).
• ECG Database Programmer's Guide
  Includes tutorial and reference material relating to the DB library, a portable set of functions (subroutines) for reading and writing files in the formats supported by the applications described in the two guides listed below. The DB library may be used with C, C++, or Fortran programs; this guide primarily describes the C interface.
• ECG Database Applications Guide
  Includes man pages for the applications included in the DB Software Package, and specifications for file formats supported by the DB library. Detailed installation instructions for the DB Software Package are included in an appendix, and a second appendix discusses how the performance of ECG analyzers can be formally evaluated using standard reference databases and the standard evaluation tools included in the DB Software Package.
• WAVE User's Guide
  A comprehensive tutorial, with extensive reference material, for WAVE, an interactive waveform browser with facilities for annotation editing and control of external analysis programs. WAVE runs on PCs under the free Linux operating system, and on SPARC-based systems under SunOS or Solaris.
• Setting up WVSCRIPT
  This short document describes how to configure your web browser under MS-Windows so that it can control WVIEW. Doing this provides some of the functionality offered by wavescript under UNIX.
• A Database to Support Development and Evaluation of Intelligent Intensive Care Monitoring.
  This reprint of a paper presented at Computers in Cardiology in September 1996 describes the goals and status (as of August 1996) of the MIMIC (Multi-parameter Intelligent Monitoring for Intensive Care) Project. A sample of the MIMIC Database is included in the odb directory of this CD-ROM. Also see notes about software included here for use with the MIMIC database, and about reading MIMIC Database records using your own software.