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This database is described in Y. Ichimaru, G.B. Moody. Development of the polysomnographic database on CD-ROM. Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences 53:175-177 (April 1999). [Abstract] 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/cgi/content/full/101/23/e215]; 2000 (June 13). |
The MIT-BIH Polysomnographic Database is a collection of recordings of multiple physiologic signals during sleep. Subjects were monitored in Boston's Beth Israel Hospital Sleep Laboratory for evaluation of chronic obstructive sleep apnea syndrome, and to test the effects of constant positive airway pressure (CPAP), a standard therapeutic intervention that usually prevents or substantially reduces airway obstruction in these subjects. The database contains over 80 hours' worth of four-, six-, and seven-channel polysomnographic recordings, each with an ECG signal annotated beat-by-beat, and EEG and respiration signals annotated with respect to sleep stages and apnea. For further information, see Signals and Annotations.
The database consists of 18 records, each of which includes 4 files:
| Sleep/apnea annotations |
Beat annotations |
Signals | Header | View waveforms * |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| slp01a.st | slp01a.ecg | slp01a.dat | slp01a.hea |  |
| slp01b.st | slp01b.ecg | slp01b.dat | slp01b.hea | |
| slp02a.st | slp02a.ecg | slp02a.dat | slp02a.hea | |
| slp02b.st | slp02b.ecg | slp02b.dat | slp02b.hea | |
| slp03.st | slp03.ecg | slp03.dat | slp03.hea | |
| slp04.st | slp04.ecg | slp04.dat | slp04.hea | |
| slp14.st | slp14.ecg | slp14.dat | slp14.hea | |
| slp16.st | slp16.ecg | slp16.dat | slp16.hea | |
| slp32.st | slp32.ecg | slp32.dat | slp32.hea | |
| slp37.st | slp37.ecg | slp37.dat | slp37.hea | |
| slp41.st | slp41.ecg | slp41.dat | slp41.hea | |
| slp45.st | slp45.ecg | slp45.dat | slp45.hea | |
| slp48.st | slp48.ecg | slp48.dat | slp48.hea | |
| slp59.st | slp59.ecg | slp59.dat | slp59.hea | |
| slp60.st | slp60.ecg | slp60.dat | slp60.hea | |
| slp61.st | slp61.ecg | slp61.dat | slp61.hea | |
| slp66.st | slp66.ecg | slp66.dat | slp66.hea | |
| slp67x.st | slp67x.ecg | slp67x.dat | slp67x.hea | |
(*) You may follow these links to view the signals and st annotations using either WAVE (under Linux, SunOS, or Solaris) or WVIEW (under MS-Windows). To do so successfully, you must have configured your browser to use wavescript (for WAVE) or wvscript (for WVIEW) as a helper application, as described in the WAVE User's Guide (see the section titled WAVE and the Web) and in Setting up WVSCRIPT.
Andrew Walsh observed that the calibration originally provided for the BP signal of record slp37 is incorrect (since it yielded negative BPs). slp37.hea now contains an estimated BP calibration that yields more plausible BPs; these should not be regarded as accurate, however, since there is no independent calibration standard available for this recording.
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