Research Article

An Improved Sliding Window Area Method for T Wave Detection

Table 1

Summary of the annotative information of the QT and the European ST-T databases.

VariableQT databaseEuropean ST-T database
OnsetOffsetOnsetOffset

No. of recordings431052323
No. of annotated beats137135421433714337
Min. Dis_qrs (ms)5222860220
Max. Dis_qrs (ms)412784264612
Mean of Dis_qrs (ms)164360160380
SD of Dis_qrs (ms)60712947

Dis_qrs: the time interval between the T wave onset/offset and the R wave position within the current beat; SD: standard deviation. The annotations of the QT database are taken from the database website https://www.physionet.org/physiobank/database/qtdb/doc/index.shtml.