title: An Open-Source Standard T-Wave Alternans Detector for Benchmarking.
abstract: We describe an open source algorithm suite for T-Wave Alternans (TWA) detection and quantification. The software consists of Matlab implementations of the widely used Spectral Method and Modified Moving Average with libraries to read both WFDB and ASCII data under windows and Linux. The software suite can run in both batch mode and with a provided graphical user interface to aid waveform exploration. Our software suite was calibrated using an open source TWA model, described in a partner paper [1] by Clifford and Sameni. For the PhysioNet/CinC Challenge 2008 we obtained a score of 0.881 for the Spectral Method and 0.400 for the MMA method. However, our objective was not to provide the best TWA detector, but rather a basis for detailed discussion of algorithms.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Cardiological Technics (Incart), St. Petersburg, Russia.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Khaustov
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nemati
authors.forename: Gd
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Clifford
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