Dataset

Boston Children's Hospital Sleep Corpus v1.0.1

15,695 pediatric clinical PSGs (2010-2024) with staging, respiratory events and >1.17M arousals (BDSP credentialed)

The Boston Children's Hospital Sleep Corpus contains 15,695 fully annotated pediatric polysomnography recordings collected between 2010 and 2024, spanning infancy to early adolescence. Each study includes EEG, EOG, EMG, ECG, respiratory effort, airflow, SpO2 and EtCO2, with expert sleep staging, arousals and respiratory events (apneas, hypopneas, RERAs) scored per AASM guidelines. It is distributed through the Brain Data Science Platform (BDSP) to credentialed researchers under a data use agreement.

At a glance
Type
Dataset
Licence
Not reported
Access
Not reported
Subjects
Not reported
PPG sites
None
Setting
Sleep lab
Wrist
No
Raw waveforms
Yes
Updated
Nov 2, 2026

Original description

The Boston Children's Hospital (BCH) Sleep Corpus comprises 15,695 fully annotated pediatric polysomnography (PSG) recordings collected between 2010 and 2024. Each study includes multimodal physiological signals–EEG, EOG, EMG, ECG, respiratory effort, airflow, SpO₂, EtCO₂ etc. along with expert sleep staging, arousal, respiratory event annotations (apneas, hypopneas, RERAs). Designed to support research in pediatric sleep, neurodevelopment, and machine learning, the corpus is publicly accessible via BDSP and accompanied by scripts for reproducing the figures in the manucript.

Verbatim fromDataCite· Description as registered with DataCite

Boston Children's Hospital Sleep Corpus v1.0.1: ChatPPG research summary card

Key numbers

1
Reference labels
SLEEP STAGING
200 Hz
Released sampling rate
EDF at native rates (MNE de-identification resamples all channels to the highest native rate); HDF5 harmonised ~200 Hz

How it works

How Boston Children's Hospital Sleep Corpus v1.0.1 works: Devices & body sites → Signals recorded → TasksDevices & body sites: None (PPG site). Signals recorded: Boston Children's Hospital Sleep Corpus v1.0.1, 200 Hz, signals ECG, SpO₂, PSG. Tasks: Sleep staging.Devices & body sitesNone: PPG siteNonePPG siteSignals recordedBoston Children's Hospital…200 HzECGR / IRSpO₂PSGTasksSleep stagingSleep staging

No model in the hub reports results on this dataset yet.

Sampling
EDF at native rates (MNE de-identification resamples all channels to the highest native rate); HDF5 harmonised ~200 Hz
Reference labels
sleep staging

Cite this dataset

Cite this dataset with the fields recorded here. Check it against the publisher before submitting.

Boston Children's Hospital Sleep Corpus v1.0.1 [Data set]. (n.d.). bdsp. https://doi.org/10.60508/hjdt-fz71
@misc{bchsleepcorpusboston,
  title         = {{Boston Children's Hospital Sleep Corpus v1.0.1}},
  howpublished  = {bdsp},
  doi           = {10.60508/hjdt-fz71}
}

Cite the ChatPPG record

Cite the dated snapshot 2026-10 for a fixed, reproducible version. Please also cite the original publications listed above.

APA

ChatPPG. (2026). Boston Children's Hospital Sleep Corpus v1.0.1: dataset record (Version 2026-10) [Data set]. ChatPPG Research Hub. https://chatppg.com/research/datasets/bch-sleep-corpus

BibTeX
@misc{chatppg_dataset_bch_sleep_corpus,
  author       = {{ChatPPG}},
  title        = {{Boston Children's Hospital Sleep Corpus v1.0.1: dataset record}},
  year         = {2026},
  month        = nov,
  version      = {2026-10},
  howpublished = {\url{https://chatppg.com/research/datasets/bch-sleep-corpus}},
  note         = {ChatPPG Research Hub, Snapshot 2026-10, https://chatppg.com/research/snapshots/2026-10}
}
CITATION.cff
cff-version: 1.2.0
message: "If you use this resource, please cite it as below."
type: dataset
title: "Boston Children's Hospital Sleep Corpus v1.0.1: dataset record"
authors:
  - name: "ChatPPG"
url: "https://chatppg.com/research/datasets/bch-sleep-corpus"
repository-artifact: "https://chatppg.com/research/snapshots/2026-10"
version: "2026-10"
date-released: "2026-11-02"

History

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