CinC / PhysioNet Challenge 2015

Reducing false arrhythmia alarms in the ICU

PPGECGABP

Key facts

Signals
ppg, ecg, abp
Reference Labels
abp, afib
Devices
ICU bedside monitors (multi-vendor; finger/ear PLETH + ECG + ABP)
Sampling Rates
250 Hz (all channels; FIR band-pass 0.05–40 Hz + mains notch; 12-bit resampled)
License
Open Data Commons Attribution License v1.0 (ODC-By 1.0)

Summary

Official 2015 PhysioNet/CinC Challenge corpus (Clifford et al.). Training set: 750 recordings with expert true/false alarm labels; hidden test 500 remains private. Each record leads up to an alarm at t≈5 min; retrospective subset adds 30 s post-alarm.

Updated: Oct 5, 2026