SHDB-AF: a Japanese Holter ECG database of atrial fibrillation

Saitama Heart Database Atrial Fibrillation (SHDB-AF) is a novel open-sourced Holter ECG database from Japan, containing data from 122 unique subjects with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation. Among the 128 recordings, 98 contain raw ECG data with rhythm annotations at the beat level, manually performed by a cardiology fellow. The remaining recordings consist only of ECG traces without annotations. The dataset was collected as part of a study evaluating the generalization performance of a deep learning atrial fibrillation event detection model across different distribution shifts.