The MIT-BIH Malignant Ventricular Arrhythmia Database

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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/content/101/23/e215.full]; 2000 (June 13).
sample waveforms

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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[   ] RECORDS                 2000-03-29 10:13   88   list of record names
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[   ] DOI                     2015-09-21 13:00   19   
[   ] ANNOTATORS              2000-10-13 22:39   33   list of annotators
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[   ] 418.dat                 1992-08-09 18:03  1.5M  digitized signal(s)
[   ] 418.atr                 1992-08-09 16:48  1.4K  reference annotations

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