A new methodology for assessment of the performance of heartbeat classification systems

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The literature presents many different algorithms for classifying heartbeats from ECG signals. The performance of the classifier is normally presented in terms of sensitivity, specificity or other metrics describing the proportion of...

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Main Authors: Hool Livia C, Darrington John M
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2008-01-01
Series:BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6947/8/7