Photoplethysmography Datasets
A list of publicly available datasets containing photoplethysmogram signals.
P. Charlton (data from the MIMIC III Waveform Database)
Overview
This table provides a list of publicly available datasets containing photoplethysmogram signals. Further details are available in: Wearable Photoplethysmography for Cardiovascular Monitoring.
Datasets
| Dataset | Ref | No. subjs | Other signals | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK Biobank (Field 4205) | - | 205,357 | None simultaneous. BP in same visit | Single finger PPG waves from middle-aged subjects. |
| MIMIC Critical Care Database | ref | 10,000s (growing) | ECG, BP, resp, others | Recordings from critically-ill adults and neonates, lasting from minutes to days. Typically at finger. |
| VitalDB | ref | 6,153 | ECG, BP, resp, others | Finger PPG recordings from patients during operations. |
| MESA Dataset | ref | 2,056 | ECG, resp, others | Finger PPG recordings from adults undergoing polysomnography. |
| MIMIC PERform Training and Testing | ref | 400 | ECG, resp | Recordings from critically-ill adults and neonates, lasting 10 minutes. Typically at finger. |
| SOMNIA Database | ref | 100s (growing) | ECG, resp, others | Wrist PPG recordings from children and adults undergoing polysomnography. |
| PPG-BP Database | ref | 219 | - | Three finger recordings from adults aged 20-89 with and without CVD, $\approx$ 3 waves per recording. |
| Sleep Disordered Breathing Database | ref | 146 | - | Finger recordings lasting $\geq$ 3 hours, acquired from children referred for polysomnography. |
| ECSMP | ref | 89 | ECG, accel, others | Wrist recordings acquired from healthy subjects during a protocol designed to induce different emotions. |
| Pulse transit time during vasoconstriction Dataset | ref | 86 | ECG, BP | $\approx$ 35-min wrist and finger recordings during cold pressor and active stand tests. |
| Vortal Dataset | ref, ref | 57 | ECG, resp | 10-min finger and ear recordings before and after exercise from healthy adults aged 18-39 and \textgreater 70. |
| BIDMC | ref | 53 | ECG, BP, resp | 8-min recordings from critically-ill adults (a subset of the MIMIC-II dataset). |
| CapnoBase | ref | 42 | ECG, resp | 8-min recordings from paediatrics and adults during elective surgery and anaesthesia. |
| Bed-based BCG Dataset | ref | 40 | ECG, BCG, BP | Recordings from adults whilst at rest. |
| MIMIC PERform AF Dataset | ref | 35 | ECG, resp | Recordings from critically-ill adults categorised as either AF (19 subjects) or normal sinus rhythm (16 subjects), lasting 10 minutes. Typically at finger. |
| Real-World PPG dataset | ref | 35 | - | Recordings from healthy subjects aged 10 to 74 years old: several 6-second recordings per subject. |
| DEAP Database | ref | 32 | ECG, resp, video, others | Thumb recordings from young, healthy subjects whilst watching one-minute 40 videos. |
| University of Queensland Vital Signs Dataset | ref | 32 | ECG, resp, BP, EEG | Recordings from patients during anaesthesia, ranging from minutes to hours in duration. |
| ESUM SNF Project Dataset | ref | 31 | accel, EDA | Wrist recordings whilst walking. |
| MARSH Dataset | ref | 29 | ECG, resp | 15-min finger recordings during spontaneous and metronome-guided breathing. |
| Non-invasive BP Estimation | ref | 26 | ECG, BP, PCG | Finger recordings from healthy adults. |
| gyro-acc-ppg Dataset | ref | 24 | ECG, accel, gyro | Wrist recordings from healthy subjects during an exercise protocol lasting 12 minutes. |
| Pulse Transit Time PPG Dataset | ref | 22 | ECG, multiwavelength PPG | Finger recordings from healthy subjects during sitting, walking and running. |
| Welltory-PPG-dataset | ref | 21 | RR intervals | Smartphone recordings acquired from the index finger in contact with the camera. |
| Wearable and Clinical Devices Dataset | ref | 18 | ECG, resp, accel, EDA | Wrist PPG recordings acquired for 5 mins at rest, and 5mins whilst walking on spot. |
| PPG-DaLiA Data Set | ref | 15 | ECG, resp, accel, EDA | Recordings acquired for $\approx$ 2.5 hours during a protocol of daily living activities. |
| WESAD Data Set | ref | 15 | ECG, resp, accel, others | Recordings acquired in a $\approx$ 2 hour protocol designed to amuse, stress, and relax. |
| iAMwell Dataset | - | 15 | ECG, resp | $\approx$ 20-min recordings before, during and after running. |
| Simultaneous Measurements Dataset | ref | 13 | ECG, accel, resp | Recordings from adults at rest and during cognitive and physical tasks. |
| IEEE Signal Processing Cup 2015 | ref | 12 | ECG, accel, two PPGs | $\approx$ 5-min recordings during intensive physical exercise from males aged 18-35. |
| AffectiveROAD Dataset | ref | 10 | accel, EDA | Recordings acquired whilst driving a car for $\approx$ 86 minutes from mostly young adults. |
| Labeled raw PPG Signals | - | 9 | - | Finger recordings acquired at rest for $\approx$ 20-40 minutes from healthy adults. |
| HYPE Dataset | ref | 9 | intermittent BP | Wrist recordings from hypertensive subjects: 8 subjects during stress tests, and 9 subjects during 24-hour monitoring. |
| Wrist PPG During Exercise | ref | 8 | BP, accel | Wrist recordings acquired from adults aged 22-32 during walking, running and bike riding. |
| PPG-ACC Dataset | ref | 7 | accel | Wrist recordings acquired from healthy adults aged 20-52 during rest, squatting and stepping. |
| Raw PPG Signal in Varying Levels of Activity | - | 5 | - | Finger recordings acquired at rest, talking and walking for $\approx$ 10 mins each from healthy adults. |
| PPG-Diary | ref | 1 | two PPGs | A 28-day thumb recording from a healthy adult, with annotations of activities of daily living. |
| Eight-Emotion Sentics Dataset | ref | 1 | EMG, GSR, resp | 25-min recordings during a protocol to evoke emotions from 1 subject each day for 20 days. |
| Pulse Wave DataBase | ref | 4,374 (synthetic) | BP, blood flow, others | Single simulated PPG pulse waves representative of healthy adults aged 25-75. |
| Photoplethysmography in dogs and cats | ref | 21 (animals) | three PPGs | $\approx$ 10-20 sec recordings at several arterial sites from 11 dogs and 10 cats. |
Defintions: resp - respiratory signal; PCG - phonocardiogram; accel - acceleromertry; gyro - gyroscope; EDA - electrodermal activity; EMG - electromyogram; GSR - galvanic skin response; ICP - intracranial pressure.
Sources
Original source (adapted under CC BY 4.0):
- P. H. Charlton et al., ‘Wearable Photoplethysmography for Cardiovascular Monitoring’, Proceedings of the IEEE, vol.110(3), pp.355-381, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2022.3149785
Version: 15 March 2022
Further Reading
For further information on photoplethysmography, please see the following review paper: Wearable Photoplethysmography for Cardiovascular Monitoring.
Peter Charlton
Senior Research Scientist
Biomedical Engineer specialising in signal processing for wearables.