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MIT-BIH Arrhythmia Database

28 May 2027 archive 2025-07-28

The MIT-BIH Arrhythmia Database contains 48 half-hour excerpts of two-channel ambulatory ECG recordings, obtained from 47 subjects studied by the BIH Arrhythmia Laboratory between 1975 and 1979. Twenty-three recordings were chosen at random from a set of 4000 24-hour ambulatory ECG recordings collected from a mixed population of inpatients (about 60%) and outpatients (about 40%) at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital; the remaining 25 recordings were selected from the same set to include less common but clinically significant arrhythmias that would not be well-represented in a small random sample.

The recordings were digitized at 360 samples per second per channel with 11-bit resolution over a 10 mV range. Two or more cardiologists independently annotated each record; disagreements were resolved to obtain the computer-readable reference annotations for each beat (approximately 110,000 annotations in all) included with the database.

This directory contains the entire MIT-BIH Arrhythmia Database. About half (25 of 48 complete records, and reference annotation files for all 48 records) of this database has been freely available here since PhysioNet's inception in September 1999. The 23 remaining signal files, which had been available only on the MIT-BIH Arrhythmia Database CD-ROM, were posted here in February 2005.

Much more information about this database may be found in the MIT-BIH Arrhythmia Database Directory.

Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

All 5 leaderboards whose dataset resolves to this page shown (sort by any header). "First row" is the archive's own first row at snapshot, in the archive's row order; nothing here re-ranks and metric direction is not asserted.

First row (archive order)PaperCode
Arrhythmia Detection MIT-BIH AR BiRNN Accuracy (Inter-Patient) 99.53% Inter- and intra- patient ECG heartbeat classification... SajadMo/SleepEEGNet +2 6 Compare
QRS Complex Detection MIT-BIH AR CNN (LOSO, Intra-Db) Accuracy 99.60% Impact of ECG Dataset Diversity on Generalization of CNN... — 5 Compare
Arrhythmia Detection MIT-BIH Arrhythmia Database ATD F1 98.2 Alternative Telescopic Displacement: An Efficient... D-ST-Sword/ATD 2 Compare
Heartbeat Classification MIT-BIH AR ESN Ensembles (II Leads) PPV (VEB) 95.7% A Fast Machine Learning Model for ECG-Based Heartbeat... — 2 Compare
Anomaly Detection MIT-BIH Arrhythmia Database RCALAD F1 score 60.6 Spot The Odd One Out: Regularized Complete Cycle... zahradehghanian97/rcalad 1 Compare

Papers archive 2025-07-28

13 shown of 13 papers with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks, newest first. The archive's own "papers using this dataset" list was never published, so this is the benchmark-backed subset; the archive's count for this dataset is 31. The Syntology column is from Syntology's graph (read 2026-09-24), stated per sample; it is not part of any archive number.

DateSamples run Syntology
Alternative Telescopic Displacement: An Efficient Multimodal Alignment Method 1 1 29 Jun 2023 not harvested
Spot The Odd One Out: Regularized Complete Cycle Consistent Anomaly Detector GAN 1 1 16 Apr 2023 not harvested
A Personalized Zero-Shot ECG Arrhythmia Monitoring System: From Sparse Representation Based Domain Adaption to Energy Efficient Abnormal Beat Detection for Practical ECG Surveillance 1 1 14 Jul 2022 not harvested
Interpretability Analysis of Heartbeat Classification Based on Heartbeat Activity’s Global Sequence Features and BiLSTM-Attention Neural Network 0 1 7 Aug 2019 not harvested
Reservoir Computing Models for Patient-Adaptable ECG Monitoring in Wearable Devices 0 1 22 Jul 2019 not harvested
A Fast Machine Learning Model for ECG-Based Heartbeat Classification and Arrhythmia Detection 0 1 18 Jul 2019 not harvested
Impact of ECG Dataset Diversity on Generalization of CNN Model for Detecting QRS Complex 0 4 10 Jul 2019 not harvested
Inter- and intra- patient ECG heartbeat classification for arrhythmia detection: a sequence to sequence deep learning approach 3 1 9 Dec 2018 not harvested
ECG Heartbeat Classification: A Deep Transferable Representation 13 1 19 Apr 2018 ran 0 of 2 samples (2 unverified)
Inter-Patient ECG Heartbeat Classification with Temporal VCG Optimized by PSO 0 1 5 Sep 2017 not harvested
Simple real-time QRS detector with the MaMeMi filter 1 1 1 Aug 2015 not harvested
A new hierarchical method for inter-patient heartbeat classification using random projections and RR intervals 0 1 30 Jun 2014 not harvested
Support vector machine based arrhythmia classification using reduced features 0 1 1 Jan 2005 not harvested

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Variants archive 2025-07-28

  • MIT-BIH AR
  • MIT-BIH Arrhythmia Database

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