Arrhythmia Detection Algorithm Performance Analysis

World Class Performance

It is important for medical instrumentation manufacturers to have an unbiased measure by which the performance of our products can be gauged.

Leading cardiologists have come together to examine and manually classify a fixed set of ECG data, which will allow leaders in the electrocardiography profession to strive for excellence in arrhythmia algorithm detection performance. Two such databases are provided by the American Heart Association and The Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The following document will detail the performance of the Mortara Instrument real time arrhythmia detection algorithm within the context of each set of data.

The AHA database includes data from 80 patients, of which two have pacemakers.

The MIT database contains 48 sets of patient data, including four, which are paced.

Each database was developed specifically for measuring algorithm accuracy with regard to ventricular ectopy, and contain two simultaneous channels of ECG.

The following analysis demonstrates why Mortara Instrument is the World Leader in ECG Technology.