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MIT-BIH Arrhythmia Database
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) | Paper | Code | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
Dataset loaders archive 2025-07-28
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Tasks archive 2025-07-28
License archive 2025-07-28
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Modalities archive 2025-07-28
Languages archive 2025-07-28
Variants archive 2025-07-28
- MIT-BIH AR
- MIT-BIH Arrhythmia Database
2 variant names, as the archive lists them.
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