Research Article

Combined Nonlinear Analysis of Atrial and Ventricular Series for Automated Screening of Atrial Fibrillation

Table 5

Performance comparison of the most relevant detectors of AF published to date applied over the AFDB as well as the ARRDB.

MethodologyWork AFDB ARRDB Delay
Se Sp Acc Se Sp Acc

AA-based informationLadavich & Ghoraani [25]98.09% 91.66% 93.22% 7 beats
Ródenas et al. [26]96.47% 94.19% 95.28% 5 beats
García et al. [27]91.21% 94.53% 93.32%7 beats
This work (TQEn)94.03% 92.39% 93.12% 90.53% 84.69% 85.79% 9 beats
This work (TQEn)93.89% 96.18% 95.15% 97.79% 89.52% 91.04% 20 beats

RR-based information Tateno & Glass [46] 94.40% 97.20% 88.17% 93.56% 92.98% 100 beats
Dash et al. [47] 94.40% 95.10% 90.20% 91.20% 18 beats
Huang et al. [48] 96.10% 98.10%70 beats
Lake & Moorman [32] 91.00% 94.00% 12 beats
Lian et al. [49] 95.80% 96.40% 98.8% 78.8%
Lee et al. [33] 94.70% 90.40% 92.40% 84.1% 12 beats
Zhou et al. [50] 96.89% 98.25% 97.67% 97.33% 90.78% 91.46% 126.5 beats
Petrenas et al. [23] 97.10% 98.30% 97.80% 86.4% 60 beats
Zhou et al. [20] 97.37% 98.44% 97.99% 97.83% 87.41% 88.51% 65 beats
This work (COSEn) 95.32% 94.14% 94.64% 72.57% 78.36% 77.29% 7 beats
This work (COSEn) 95.94% 96.32% 96.15% 71.75% 82.35% 80.41% 16 beats

Combination of AA- and RR-based features Babaeizadeh et al. [51] 92.00% 95.50%
Jiang et al. [52] 98.20% 97.50%
Asgari et al. [53] 97.00% 97.10% 97.10% 9.8 sec
This work (LDA: TQEn & COSEn) 96.59% 95.66% 96.07% 74.76% 89.03% 86.40% 9 beats
This work (LDA: TQEn & COSEn) 96.47% 97.35% 96.96% 75.30% 93.51% 91.98% 20 beats

Only AF and SR episodes were considered.