2021 News

As a result of an internal audit at the Korea University Medical Center, the authors of the KURIAS-ECG dataset (https://doi.org/10.13026/kga0-0270) have asked for downloads to be disabled until further notice. We apologize for the inconvenience and hope to make the files available again in the future.

October 25, 2021: We are currently evaluating entries on the 2021 Challenge test data in support of the Physiological Measurement focus issue on multilead ECG classification. The deadline to submit your code and a preprint is 1 December 2021, and the deadline to submit your article is 11 January 2022. See this forum announcement for details.

September 20, 2021: The winners of the 2021 Challenge were announced on 15 September 2021 at CinC in Brno, Czech Republic. Congratulations, teams! See this page for the results and the full announcement for the final steps in this year’s Challenge, including details about the focus issue (deadline: 11 January 2022).

September 15, 2021: In honor of the contributions of George Moody to PhysioNet and Computing in Cardiology, the Board of CinC voted to rename the Challenges to the George B. Moody PhysioNet Challenge.

July 21, 2021: As you prepare your CinC papers, please follow the CinC preparation and submission instructions and use either our LaTeX (Overleaf or download) or Word templates, which include important instructions, advice, and references. Please see here for more information, including our draft paper and important citation information.

We are pleased to announce that a 100-patient demo of MIMIC-IV has been made available in the OMOP Common Data Model. The dataset is currently undergoing user testing and has known limitations (for example, the inputevents and outputevents tables are not yet incorporated). For more detail, please visit the project page on PhysioNet and the associated GitHub repository.

This work builds on previous efforts by Nicolas Paris, Adrien Parrot and colleagues on MIMIC-III. The project was in part supported by grants from Bill and Melinda Gates foundation and National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Institutes of Health. 

An overnight power outage (24-25 June 2021) appears to have resulted in some network issues. Functionality such as integration with external services (e.g. ORCID and Google Cloud) may be affected. We are investigating! [UPDATE: the network has been restored.]

June 23, 2021: CinC has released its abstract decisions for the Challenge track of the conference. Congratulations to those with accepted abstracts. Those without an accepted abstract can still compete for a wildcard entry as outlined here.

We are pleased to announce the integration of PhysioNet with ORCID, the unique digital identifier for researchers. Adding your ORCID iD to PhysioNet will help you to connect professional works — datasets, software, etc. — to your public ORCID profile.

If you are applying for "credentialed" access to PhysioNet resources, we highly recommend linking your ORCID iD to your profile prior to submitting the application. Doing so makes it easier for us to establish your identity, helping to expedite the review process. 

In the future, we will be adding new features to enhance the ORCID integration, for example syncing your PhysioNet publications with your ORCID profile. Please let us know if you have suggestions for additional improvements at contact@physionet.org.

Head to https://physionet.org/settings/orcid/ to link your ORCID iD to PhysioNet.

May 1, 2021: The official phase of the Challenge reopens today. Due to your engagement, we have enormously expanded the training data, modified the lead combination, and modified the example code and scoring function. Please see our announcement on the Challenge forum for more details. We will update and clarify these changes in response to your questions in the coming days.

April 19, 2021: CinC has extended its abstract submission deadline to April 24, 2021. Please submit your abstract if you have not done so already. Like last year, CinC will host a hybrid conference with both in-person and remote attendance. Please see our announcement on the Challenge forum for more details.

April 13, 2021: Only two days left to submit an abstract to CinC! Please find the abstract submission announcement and the instructions announcement on the Challenge forum. Please see the leaderboard for the final scores of the unofficial phase, and please submit your abstract today!

February 24, 2021: The leaderboard is now live! Please see the announcement on the Challenge forum. Please see the timing and priority of entries section here regarding the number of submissions allowed per day, so please submit early!

We are deeply saddened to announce the passing of George Moody, one of the original PhysioNet team. George passed away as a consequence of COVID-19 on February 13, 2021, surrounded by his family, Edna, Benjamin, Jeremy and Melissa.

George has been a fundamental part of PhysioNet since the beginning, stretching back into the late 70s and early 1980's. George developed the WFDB libraries, and much of code that can be found on PhysioNet today, which underpins the Research Resource for Complex Physiologic Signals, and the fundamentals of ECG signal processing. George's work spanned state-of-the-art QRS detection, beat classification, noise assessment, and heart rate variability, among other areas. A pioneer and stalwart of open source principles, his work has blazed a trail in the field of physiological signal processing. This was acknowledged in 2016 by the AAMI, which awarded him (jointly with Ary Goldberger and Roger Mark) its most prestigious prize, the Laufman-Greatbatch Award.

George is perhaps best known for his design and implementation of the PhysioNet/CinC Challenges, which he ran for 15 years, from inception in 2000, until 2014, after which he retired due to ill health. These Challenges have pushed the field forward, stimulating research and translation, long before most, if not all, other public data science competitions began.

George was generous with his time and took pride in answering almost every email he received. He tirelessly devoted himself to the field, supporting everyone, from the newest student, to the giants of industry. At Computing in Cardiology, which he attended every year from 1979 to 2014, he was often the star of the show, generating a unique buzz around the Challenges. He also served on the board of the conference for longer than anyone, and was an active member of that community for over 30 years, contributing over 70 articles to the proceedings.

George began his career as an undergraduate at MIT, studying physics. His (sometimes supernatural) skill at C coding led him to work on the seminal MIT-BIH Arrhythmia Database with Roger Mark and Ary Goldberger. Still today, this database is at the core of many FDA applications. After his student days George became a research scientist at MIT in Roger Mark's group and remained there until retirement. George was a polymath. You could talk to him about any subject and realize his depth of thought was exceptional. There wasn't a subject on which he couldn't offer a genuinely deep and informed opinion. Yet he listened to everyone and treated all ideas and views with the utmost respect.

George was a man who appreciated life to its fullest. Perhaps his most impressive characteristic was that he always put his family first. A wonderful father and husband, he always made time for those he loved. Edna mentioned that George's favorite charity was Partners In Health (pih.org), and requested that anyone wishing to make a gesture in remembrance of him, to please direct it there. George was loved by us all, and we miss him enormously. He leaves an enduring legacy for the next generation, although he would be too humble to ever acknowledge that fact.

January 30, 2021: We are now accepting submissions for the 2021 Challenge! See below for details. Please register your team (even if you registered last year), check the submission instructions, and submit your code when ready. As always, please join the Challenge forum to discuss this year’s Challenge.