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BIDMC Congestive Heart Failure Database
Published: Oct. 14, 2000. Version: 1.0.0
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Goldberger, A., Amaral, L., Glass, L., Hausdorff, J., Ivanov, P. C., Mark, R., ... & Stanley, H. E. (2000). PhysioBank, PhysioToolkit, and PhysioNet: Components of a new research resource for complex physiologic signals. Circulation [Online]. 101 (23), pp. e215–e220.
Data Description
This database includes long-term ECG recordings from 15 subjects (11 men, aged 22 to 71, and 4 women, aged 54 to 63) with severe congestive heart failure (NYHA class 3–4). This group of subjects was part of a larger study group receiving conventional medical therapy prior to receiving the oral inotropic agent, milrinone. Further details about the larger study group are available in the first reference cited above. A number of additional studies have made use of these recordings; see the additional references below.
The individual recordings are each about 20 hours in duration, and contain two ECG signals each sampled at 250 samples per second with 12-bit resolution over a range of ±10 millivolts. The original analog recordings were made at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital (now the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center) using ambulatory ECG recorders with a typical recording bandwidth of approximately 0.1 Hz to 40 Hz. Annotation files (with the suffix .ecg) were prepared using an automated detector and have not been corrected manually.
References
- Moody GB, Mark RG, Bump MA, Weinstein JS, Berman AD, Mietus JE, Goldberger AL. Clinical validation of the ECG-derived respiration (EDR) technique. Computers in Cardiology 1986; 13:507–510.
- Goldberger AL, Rigney DR, Mietus J, Antman EM, Greenwald S. Nonlinear dynamics in sudden cardiac death syndrome: heartrate oscillations and bifurcations. Experientia 1988 Dec 1; 44(11–12):983–987.
- Peng C-K, Mietus J, Hausdorff JM, Havlin S, Stanley HE, Goldberger AL. Long-range anticorrelations and non-Gaussian behavior of the heartbeat. Physical Review Letters 1993 Mar 1; 70(9):1343–1346.
- Peng C-K, Havlin S, Stanley HE, Goldberger AL. Quantification of scaling exponents and crossover phenomena in nonstationary heartbeat time series. Chaos 1995; 5(1):82–87.
- Poon C-S, Merrill CK. Decrease of cardiac chaos in congestive heart failure. Nature 1997 Oct 2; 389(6650):492–495.
- Ivanov PCh, Bunde A, Amaral LAN, Havlin S, Fritsch-Yelle J, Baevsky RM, Stanley HE, Goldberger AL. Sleep-wake differences in scaling behavior of the human heartbeat: analysis of terrestrial and long-term space flight data. Europhysics Letters 1999; 48(5):594–600.
- Ivanov PCh, Amaral LAN, Goldberger AL, Havlin S, Rosenblum MG, Struzik ZR, Stanley HE. Multifractality in human heart rate dynamics. Nature 1999 Jun 3; 399(6735):461–465.
- Teich MC, Lowen SB, Jost BM, Vibe-Rhymer K, Heneghan C. Heart rate variability: measures and models. In Nonlinear Biomedical Signal Processing, Vol. II, Dynamic Analysis and Modeling (Ed. M Akay), ch. 6, pp 159–213. New York: IEEE Press, 2001. [The 15 recordings identified in Appendix A of this reference by names of the form annnn are those belonging to this database.]
- Mietus JE, Peng C-K, Henry I, Goldsmith RL, Goldberger AL. The pNNx files: re-examining a widely used heart rate variability measure. Heart 2002; 88:378–380.
Access
Access Policy:
Anyone can access the files, as long as they conform to the terms of the specified license.
License (for files):
Open Data Commons Attribution License v1.0
Discovery
DOI (version 1.0.0):
https://doi.org/10.13026/C29G60
Topics:
congestive heart failure
chf
ecg
Corresponding Author
Files
Total uncompressed size: 773.4 MB.
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Name | Size | Modified |
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ANNOTATORS (download) | 58 B | 2000-10-13 |
RECORDS (download) | 90 B | 2000-10-05 |
SHA256SUMS.txt (download) | 4.7 KB | 2019-02-20 |
chf01.dat (download) | 51.5 MB | 2000-10-05 |
chf01.ecg (download) | 147.6 KB | 2000-10-05 |
chf01.hea (download) | 148 B | 2012-02-14 |
chf01.hea- (download) | 138 B | 2003-02-18 |
chf02.dat (download) | 50.9 MB | 2000-10-05 |
chf02.ecg (download) | 223.8 KB | 2003-07-14 |
chf02.ecg- (download) | 221.6 KB | 2000-10-05 |
chf02.hea (download) | 147 B | 2012-02-14 |
chf02.hea- (download) | 137 B | 2003-02-18 |
chf03.dat (download) | 51.5 MB | 2000-10-05 |
chf03.ecg (download) | 158.8 KB | 2000-10-05 |
chf03.hea (download) | 147 B | 2012-02-14 |
chf03.hea- (download) | 137 B | 2003-02-18 |
chf04.dat (download) | 51.5 MB | 2000-10-05 |
chf04.ecg (download) | 540 KB | 2003-07-14 |
chf04.ecg- (download) | 172.9 KB | 2000-10-05 |
chf04.hea (download) | 148 B | 2012-02-14 |
chf04.hea- (download) | 138 B | 2003-02-18 |
chf05.dat (download) | 50.9 MB | 2000-10-05 |
chf05.ecg (download) | 232.7 KB | 2000-10-05 |
chf05.hea (download) | 148 B | 2012-02-14 |
chf05.hea- (download) | 138 B | 2003-02-18 |
chf06.dat (download) | 50.9 MB | 2000-10-05 |
chf06.ecg (download) | 232.9 KB | 2000-10-05 |
chf06.hea (download) | 148 B | 2012-02-14 |
chf06.hea- (download) | 138 B | 2003-02-18 |
chf07.dat (download) | 51.5 MB | 2000-10-05 |
chf07.ecg (download) | 180.8 KB | 2000-10-05 |
chf07.hea (download) | 147 B | 2012-02-14 |
chf07.hea- (download) | 137 B | 2003-02-18 |
chf08.dat (download) | 51.5 MB | 2000-10-05 |
chf08.ecg (download) | 177.3 KB | 2000-10-05 |
chf08.hea (download) | 147 B | 2012-02-14 |
chf08.hea- (download) | 137 B | 2003-02-18 |
chf09.dat (download) | 50.9 MB | 2000-10-05 |
chf09.ecg (download) | 224.7 KB | 2000-10-05 |
chf09.hea (download) | 143 B | 2012-02-14 |
chf09.hea- (download) | 133 B | 2003-02-18 |
chf10.dat (download) | 51.5 MB | 2000-10-05 |
chf10.ecg (download) | 287.8 KB | 2000-10-05 |
chf10.hea (download) | 146 B | 2012-02-14 |
chf10.hea- (download) | 136 B | 2003-02-18 |
chf11.dat (download) | 51.5 MB | 2000-10-05 |
chf11.ecg (download) | 225.9 KB | 2000-10-05 |
chf11.hea (download) | 148 B | 2012-02-14 |
chf11.hea- (download) | 138 B | 2003-02-18 |
chf12.dat (download) | 51.0 MB | 2000-10-05 |
chf12.ecg (download) | 224.9 KB | 2000-10-05 |
chf12.hea (download) | 145 B | 2012-02-14 |
chf12.hea- (download) | 135 B | 2003-02-18 |
chf13.dat (download) | 51.5 MB | 2000-10-05 |
chf13.ecg (download) | 225.9 KB | 2000-10-05 |
chf13.hea (download) | 149 B | 2012-02-14 |
chf13.hea- (download) | 139 B | 2003-02-18 |
chf14.dat (download) | 51.5 MB | 2000-10-05 |
chf14.ecg (download) | 183.0 KB | 2000-10-05 |
chf14.hea (download) | 147 B | 2012-02-14 |
chf14.hea- (download) | 137 B | 2003-02-18 |
chf15.dat (download) | 51.5 MB | 2000-10-05 |
chf15.ecg (download) | 225.0 KB | 2000-10-05 |
chf15.hea (download) | 152 B | 2012-02-14 |
chf15.hea- (download) | 142 B | 2003-02-18 |