Indian Institute of Science Fetal Heart Sound Database (IIScFHSDB)

The Indian Institute of Science Fetal Heart Sound Database (IIScFHSDB) has 60 fetal phonocardiography (fPCG) recordings obtained from expecting mothers of age 18-27 years of age with gestation weeks 30-40. The recordings are made at St. John's Hospital, Bangalore with an electronic stethoscope. The data is collected from the antenatal and labor wards by placing the electronic stethoscope on the lower abdomen of the subject. The fPCG recordings are obtained from 60 subjects with the gain of 500X and the average duration of the recordings is 8 minutes with a sampling frequency of 2 kHz.