Table 4 The performance of the P wave detection algorithms on pathological signals from the MITDB with annotations MIT PDB (Se—sensitivity; PP—positive predictivity).

From: Reliable P wave detection in pathological ECG signals

Sig. no

Type of pathology

Basic method26

Previous method31

Proposed method

Se [%]

PP [%]

Se [%]

PP [%]

Se [%]

PP [%]

106

PVC

90.98

91.83

92.77

81.09

99.37

94.75

119

PVC

99.38

99.69

97.41

98.20

98.15

97.80

207

NOD

81.54

56.58

96.18

78.49

97.47

78.85

214

PVC

98.55

99.5

99.75

95.32

99.90

94.45

222

NOD

82.28

54.17

62.13

89.87

81.96

84.32

223

PVC

94.62

83.72

98.00

83.86

99.48

92.27

231

AVB II

78.39

99.68

100.00

98.66

98.50

98.45

Mean

 

89.39

83.59

93.88

89.31

96.40

91.56