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<main><h1 style="margin-top: 1.75em; padding-top: .4em;">The MIT-BIH ECG Compression Test Database</h1><nav id="tocwrapper" style="padding: 1.5em 0 0 0; float: right;"> <!-- id to position toc added by KP, 6 July 2015 -->
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This database is described in</p>
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Moody GB, Mark RG, Goldberger AL.
<a href="http://ecg.mit.edu/george/publications/trim-cinc-1988.pdf"
target="other">Evaluation of the "TRIM" ECG data compressor.</a>
<i>Computers in Cardiology</i>. <b>15</b>:167-170 (1988).
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<b>Please cite this publication when referencing this material, and also
include the standard citation for PhysioNet:</b></p>
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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.
<i>Circulation</i> <b>101</b>(23):e215-e220 [Circulation Electronic Pages;
<a href="http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/101/23/e215.full"
target="other">http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/101/23/e215.full</a>];
2000 (June 13).
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This database contains 168 short ECG recordings (20.48 seconds each) selected
to pose a variety of challenges for ECG compressors, in particular for lossy
compression methods.</p>
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