Big Data is a Big Deal for Biomedical Research
29 April 2013 11:40:00 EDT
PhysioNet is one of four NIH-supported initiatives highlighted in a
recent White House blog entry about accelerating the pace of discovery
through the use of Big Data. (The others are
the Human Connectome Project,
the BRAIN Initiative, and
the Cancer
Genome Atlas.)
Test Data for Challenge 2013 Posted
2 April 2013 19:00:00 EDT
The open test set B (100 one-minute noninvasive fetal ECG recordings)
for Challenge 2013 is now available, together with a supplement of 50
additional recordings in training set A.
PhysioNet/Computing in Cardiology Challenge 2013 Opens
21 February 2013 14:00:00 EST
This year's challenge invites participants to develop software capable
of detecting fetal QRS complexes in multichannel noninvasive ECG
recordings, making accurate estimates of fetal heart rate, RR
intervals, and QT intervals. An annotated training set of 25
one-minute recordings is available now; a sample entry, software for
scoring, and test recordings will be available shortly.
First Open Access to a Large Subset of the MIMIC II Clinical Database
4 October 2012 21:00:00 EDT
Open access is now available for the first time to a set of 4000 patient
records included in the MIMIC II Clinical Database
Demo, a downloadable disk image that can be run within a virtual machine or
from a bootable USB flash drive or DVD. Since all of the required software,
including the operating system, is pre-installed and configured, the demo is an
ideal way to begin exploring the MIMIC II Clinical
Database (currently including more than 32,000 patient records) on a spare
PC or Intel Mac with an absolute minimum of setup time.
PhysioNet/Computing in Cardiology Challenge 2012
31 August 2012 00:45:00 EDT
This year's challenge focuses on methods for predicting mortality of
ICU patients, using a rich set of physiologic and clinical variables
collected from 12,000 patients. Phase 1 of the challenge drew
participation from 39 individuals and teams, 28 of whom continued in
Phase 2, which concluded on 25 August. Final scores have now been posted. Participants will present their
work on the challenge at CinC 2012
in Krakow, 9-12 September.
Physiological Measurement focuses on work of Challenge 2011
participants
17 August 2012 16:30:00 EDT
Inspired by the PhysioNet/CinC Challenge 2011
(Improving the quality of ECGs collected using mobile phones), the
journal Physiological Measurement has devoted its September 2012 focus
issue to the subject of signal quality in cardiorespiratory monitoring, with
eleven articles on this topic, including nine written by Challenge
participants.
Abdominal and Direct Fetal ECG Database
9 August 2012 18:30:00 EDT
PhysioBank has received a contribution of five-minute multichannel fetal ECG
recordings, with cardiologist-verified annotations of all fetal heart beats,
from five women in labor, from the Medical University of Silesia, Poland. Each
record includes four signals from the maternal abdomen and a simultaneously
recorded reference direct fetal ECG from the fetal scalp; all signals are
sampled at 1 KHz with 16-bit resolution.
Fetal Distress and the OB-1 Database
3 August 2012 13:00:00 EDT
The creators of the OB-1 Database of fetal ECGs seek collaborators in
their PhysioNetWorks project to complete the database and to use it to
investigate improved diagnoses of fetal distress. A sample recording
from the database is now available in PhysioBank, while construction
of the remainder (including more than 100 additional recordings, with
detailed accompanying clinical information) is in progress on PhysioNetWorks.
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