The BIDMC Congestive Heart Failure Database

This database is a subset of the data described in

Baim DS, Colucci WS, Monrad ES, Smith HS, Wright RF, Lanoue A, Gauthier DF, Ransil BJ, Grossman W, Braunwald E. Survival of patients with severe congestive heart failure treated with oral milrinone. J American College of Cardiology 1986 Mar; 7(3):661-670. [View 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).

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.

Additional 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. [View Abstract]
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. [View Abstract]
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. [View Abstract]
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. [View Abstract]

 Name                    Last modified      Size  Description
 Parent Directory                             -   
 ANNOTATORS              13-Oct-2000 15:29   58   list of annotators
 MD5SUMS                 12-Jul-2005 22:50  2.2K  
 RECORDS                 06-Oct-2000 00:58   90   list of record names
 SHA1SUMS                12-Jul-2005 22:57  2.6K  
 SHA256SUMS              18-Sep-2007 13:37  3.9K  
 chf01.dat               05-Oct-2000 23:53   51M  digitized signal(s)
 chf01.ecg               06-Oct-2000 00:39  148K  unaudited annotations
 chf01.hea               14-Feb-2012 21:22  148   header file
 chf01.hea-              18-Feb-2003 22:33  138   header file
 chf02.dat               05-Oct-2000 23:54   51M  digitized signal(s)
 chf02.ecg               15-Jul-2003 00:48  224K  unaudited annotations
 chf02.ecg-              06-Oct-2000 00:42  222K  unaudited annotations
 chf02.hea               14-Feb-2012 21:22  147   header file
 chf02.hea-              18-Feb-2003 22:33  137   header file
 chf03.dat               05-Oct-2000 23:55   51M  digitized signal(s)
 chf03.ecg               06-Oct-2000 00:43  159K  unaudited annotations
 chf03.hea               14-Feb-2012 21:22  147   header file
 chf03.hea-              18-Feb-2003 22:33  137   header file
 chf04.dat               05-Oct-2000 23:57   51M  digitized signal(s)
 chf04.ecg               14-Jul-2003 23:28  540K  unaudited annotations
 chf04.ecg-              05-Oct-2000 23:56  173K  unaudited annotations
 chf04.hea               14-Feb-2012 21:22  148   header file
 chf04.hea-              18-Feb-2003 22:33  138   header file
 chf05.dat               05-Oct-2000 23:58   51M  digitized signal(s)
 chf05.ecg               06-Oct-2000 00:47  233K  unaudited annotations
 chf05.hea               14-Feb-2012 21:21  148   header file
 chf05.hea-              18-Feb-2003 22:33  138   header file
 chf06.dat               06-Oct-2000 00:00   51M  digitized signal(s)
 chf06.ecg               06-Oct-2000 00:49  233K  unaudited annotations
 chf06.hea               14-Feb-2012 21:21  148   header file
 chf06.hea-              18-Feb-2003 22:32  138   header file
 chf07.dat               06-Oct-2000 00:01   51M  digitized signal(s)
 chf07.ecg               06-Oct-2000 00:50  181K  unaudited annotations
 chf07.hea               14-Feb-2012 21:21  147   header file
 chf07.hea-              18-Feb-2003 22:32  137   header file
 chf08.dat               06-Oct-2000 00:03   51M  digitized signal(s)
 chf08.ecg               06-Oct-2000 00:50  177K  unaudited annotations
 chf08.hea               14-Feb-2012 21:21  147   header file
 chf08.hea-              18-Feb-2003 22:32  137   header file
 chf09.dat               06-Oct-2000 00:04   51M  digitized signal(s)
 chf09.ecg               06-Oct-2000 00:52  225K  unaudited annotations
 chf09.hea               14-Feb-2012 21:21  143   header file
 chf09.hea-              18-Feb-2003 22:32  133   header file
 chf10.dat               06-Oct-2000 00:09   51M  digitized signal(s)
 chf10.ecg               06-Oct-2000 00:52  288K  unaudited annotations
 chf10.hea               14-Feb-2012 21:21  146   header file
 chf10.hea-              18-Feb-2003 22:32  136   header file
 chf11.dat               06-Oct-2000 00:10   51M  digitized signal(s)
 chf11.ecg               06-Oct-2000 00:54  226K  unaudited annotations
 chf11.hea               14-Feb-2012 21:21  148   header file
 chf11.hea-              18-Feb-2003 22:32  138   header file
 chf12.dat               06-Oct-2000 00:11   51M  digitized signal(s)
 chf12.ecg               06-Oct-2000 00:55  225K  unaudited annotations
 chf12.hea               14-Feb-2012 21:21  145   header file
 chf12.hea-              18-Feb-2003 22:32  135   header file
 chf13.dat               06-Oct-2000 00:13   51M  digitized signal(s)
 chf13.ecg               06-Oct-2000 00:55  226K  unaudited annotations
 chf13.hea               14-Feb-2012 21:21  149   header file
 chf13.hea-              18-Feb-2003 22:32  139   header file
 chf14.dat               06-Oct-2000 00:14   51M  digitized signal(s)
 chf14.ecg               06-Oct-2000 00:56  183K  unaudited annotations
 chf14.hea               14-Feb-2012 21:21  147   header file
 chf14.hea-              18-Feb-2003 22:31  137   header file
 chf15.dat               06-Oct-2000 00:17   51M  digitized signal(s)
 chf15.ecg               06-Oct-2000 00:57  225K  unaudited annotations
 chf15.hea               14-Feb-2012 21:21  152   header file
 chf15.hea-              18-Feb-2003 22:31  142   header file