The ECGs in this collection were obtained using a non-commercial, PTB prototype recorder with the following specifications:
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Electrocardiography (ECG) is a key diagnostic tool to assess the cardiac condition of a patient. Automatic ECG interpretation algorithms as diagnosis support systems promise large reliefs for the medical personnel - only on the basis of the number of ECGs that are routinely taken. However, the development of such algorithms requires large training datasets and clear benchmark procedures. In our opinion, both aspects are not covered satisfactorily by existing freely accessible ECG datasets.
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A dataset of 12-lead ECGs with annotations. The dataset contains 345 779 exams from 233 770 patients. It was obtained through stratified sampling from the CODE dataset ( 15% of the patients). The data was collected by the Telehealth Network of Minas Gerais in the period between 2010 and 2016.
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