Datasets:
license: pddl
license_name: physionet-credentialed-health-data-license-1.5.0
license_link: https://physionet.org/content/mimiciv/view-license/3.1/
language:
- en
tags:
- medical
- clinical
- ecg
- ehr
- multimodal
- question-answering
- prognosis
- mimic-iv
task_categories:
- question-answering
size_categories:
- 100K<n<1M
UniPACT-MDS-ED Prompted Dataset
A multimodal prompt-formatted version of the MDS-ED prognostic benchmark (built on MIMIC-IV-ECG + MIMIC-IV), used to train and evaluate UniPACT. Each example pairs a raw 12-lead ECG waveform with a natural-language prompt that textualizes structured EHR (demographics, biometrics, vital signs) plus a binary clinical question (Yes/No).
📄 Paper: Tang, Xia, Lu, Saeed. UniPACT: A Multimodal Framework for Prognostic Question Answering on Raw ECG and Structured EHR. ICASSP 2026 (arXiv:2601.17916 · IEEE Xplore) — read this for architecture, training recipe, ablations, and full results.
🔑 Access
This dataset inherits the PhysioNet Credentialed Health Data License from MIMIC-IV. Before you can download:
- Create a PhysioNet account
- Complete the required CITI "Data or Specimens Only Research" training
- Sign the MIMIC-IV data use agreement
Without credentialing, the files will not be accessible.
📊 Task coverage
The dataset spans 1443 binary prognostic sub-tasks across four families:
| Family | Sub-tasks | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Diagnosis | 1428 | Disease-level binary diagnosis classes |
| Deterioration | 6 | Acute clinical deterioration outcomes |
| ICU admission | 2 | ICU-related admission outcomes |
| Mortality | 7 | Mortality at multiple time horizons |
Splits follow the official MDS-ED train / validation / test partition.
🧪 Examples
Each row contains a raw ECG tensor ((5000, 12) float array · 10 s @ 500 Hz · 12 leads), a textualized EHR prompt, a binary clinical question, and a Yes/No label. One real sample from each task family:
Deterioration — deterioration_severe_hypoxemia_362
ECG: …/p16463772/s48979490/48979490
EHR: 54 y/o BLACK AFRICAN AMERICAN female; BMI 29.8, weight 76.2;
temp 36.4, HR 60, RR 16.5, SpO₂ 100, BP 153/94, acuity 2.0.
Q: Will the patient "experience severe hypoxemia"?
A: Yes
ICU admission — deterioration_icu_24h_7
ECG: …/p18585855/s44869927/44869927
EHR: 54 y/o WHITE female; BMI 28.9, weight 71.7, height 157.5;
temp 36.8, HR 77.5, RR 16.5, SpO₂ 99.5, BP 115.5/66.5, acuity 3.0.
Q: Will the patient "require ICU admission within the next 24 hours"?
A: Yes
Mortality — deterioration_mortality_1d_3
ECG: …/p13953606/s48605173/48605173
EHR: 61 y/o WHITE male; BMI 28.7, weight 104.1, height 190.5;
temp 36.3, HR 101, RR 20, SpO₂ 99, BP 156/81, acuity 1.0.
Q: Will the patient "die within 24 hours"?
A: No
Diagnosis — diagnoses_i10_0
ECG: …/p11922120/s41055417/41055417
EHR: 66 y/o WHITE male; BMI 31.7, weight 118.1;
temp 36.3, HR 81, RR 18, SpO₂ 99, BP 141/73, acuity 2.0.
Q: Will the patient be diagnosed with "Essential (primary) hypertension"?
A: No
Reference
Citation
@INPROCEEDINGS{11461333,
author = {Tang, Jialu and Xia, Tong and Lu, Yuan and Saeed, Aaqib},
booktitle = {ICASSP 2026 - 2026 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
title = {UniPACT: A Multimodal Framework for Prognostic Question Answering on Raw ECG and Structured EHR},
year = {2026},
pages = {22537-22541},
doi = {10.1109/ICASSP55912.2026.11461333}
}
Please also cite the underlying MDS-ED benchmark and MIMIC-IV per their respective requirements.
Source data & construction
- Source benchmark: MDS-ED (Alcaraz et al., 2024)
- Underlying clinical data: MIMIC-IV-ECG and MIMIC-IV, collected at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and de-identified under HIPAA Safe Harbor by the MIT Laboratory for Computational Physiology
- EHR textualization: 3 demographic + 3 biometric + 7 vital-parameter fields are inserted into fixed sentence templates
- Labels: derived programmatically from existing structured fields (ICD codes, ICU stay tables, mortality timestamps, MDS-ED deterioration outcomes) — no human re-annotation
- ECG: raw 12-lead waveforms kept in native form for waveform encoders; no conversion to text reports
See paper §2 for the full construction pipeline.
