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MIT-BIH Polysomnographic Database

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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