Dataset

MIT-BIH Normal Sinus Rhythm Database (PhysioNet)

The MIT-BIH Normal Sinus Rhythm Database contains 18 long-term ECG recordings of people referred to the arrhythmia lab at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital who turned out to have no significant arrhythmias. The subjects were 5 men aged 26 to 45 and 13 women aged 20 to 50.

Published: PhysioNet, 1990
Cohort: 18 subjects (5 men, 13 women)
Rhythm: normal sinus rhythm

At a glance

Type: Dataset
Host: Not reported
DOI: 10.13026/C2NK5R (opens in a new tab)
Licence: Not reported
Access: Not reported
Subjects: Not reported
Signals: ECG
PPG sites: None
Setting: In the wild, Lab
Wrist: Not reported
Raw waveforms: Not reported
Tasks: HR estimation
Updated: Oct 16, 2026

Original description

This database includes 18 long-term ECG recordings of subjects referred to the Arrhythmia Laboratory at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital (now the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center). Subjects included in this database were found to have had no significant arrhythmias; they include 5 men, aged 26 to 45, and 13 women, aged 20 to 50.

Verbatim fromPhysioNet· Licence: Open Data Commons Attribution License v1.0

MIT-BIH Normal Sinus Rhythm Database (PhysioNet): ChatPPG research summary card

How it works

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

Device roles: Clinical reference (ECG)

Models trained or evaluated on it

No model in the hub reports results on MIT-BIH Normal Sinus Rhythm Database (PhysioNet) yet. Be the first: results submitted with a paper are added here.

Cite

@misc{nsrdb2026,
  title = {{MIT-BIH Normal Sinus Rhythm Database (PhysioNet)}},
  year = {2026},
  doi = {10.13026/C2NK5R},
  url = {https://physionet.org/content/nsrdb/1.0.0/}
}

History

Oct 16, 2026
Record updated