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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[   ] 419.atr                 10-Aug-1992 00:03  806   reference annotations
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[   ] 420.atr                 10-Aug-1992 00:03  132   reference annotations
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[XWS] 421.xws                 12-Dec-1999 23:33   88   WAVEScript
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[XWS] 428.xws                 12-Dec-1999 23:33   88   WAVEScript
[   ] 429.atr                 10-Aug-1992 00:03  322   reference annotations
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[   ] 429.hea                 06-Apr-2008 00:05   95   header file
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[XWS] 429.xws                 12-Dec-1999 23:33   88   WAVEScript
[   ] 430.atr                 10-Aug-1992 00:03  492   reference annotations
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[   ] 430.hea                 06-Apr-2008 00:05   94   header file
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[   ] 602.hea                 06-Apr-2008 00:05   91   header file
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[XWS] 602.xws                 12-Dec-1999 23:33   88   WAVEScript
[   ] 605.atr                 10-Aug-1992 00:03   46   reference annotations
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[   ] 605.hea                 06-Apr-2008 00:05   91   header file
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[   ] 609.hea                 06-Apr-2008 00:05   92   header file
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[XWS] 609.xws                 12-Dec-1999 23:33   88   WAVEScript
[   ] 610.atr                 10-Aug-1992 00:03  396   reference annotations
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[   ] 610.hea                 06-Apr-2008 00:05   95   header file
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[   ] 611.qrs                 15-Jul-2002 17:23  8.0K  unaudited annotations
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[   ] 614.atr                 10-Aug-1992 00:03  276   reference annotations
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[   ] 614.hea                 06-Apr-2008 00:05   93   header file
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[XWS] 614.xws                 12-Dec-1999 23:33   88   WAVEScript
[   ] 615.atr                 10-Aug-1992 00:03  150   reference annotations
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[   ] 615.hea                 06-Apr-2008 00:05   94   header file
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[XWS] 615.xws                 12-Dec-1999 23:33   88   WAVEScript
[   ] ANNOTATORS              14-Oct-2000 04:39   33   list of annotators
[   ] DOI                     21-Sep-2015 19:00   19   
[   ] MD5SUMS                 13-Jul-2005 08:27  3.8K  
[   ] RECORDS                 29-Mar-2000 17:13   88   list of record names
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[TXT] annotations.shtml       06-Jan-2012 03:02  2.2K  
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