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. 2008 Mar-Apr;15(2):227–234. doi: 10.1197/jamia.M2493

Table 4.

Table 4 Internal and External Validity of Artifact Filters Developed Using Individual Standards

Variable Filtering Method Internal Validity
External Validity
Sensitivity PPV Sensitivity PPV
ABPm Median filtering 0.48 (0.32–0.64) 0.81 (0.62–0.93) 0.44 (0.29–0.59) 0.74 (0.56–0.84)
ArtiDetect 0.60 (0.45–0.74) 0.84 (0.64–0.91) 0.55 (0.42–0.67) 0.70 (0.49–0.79)
Tree induction 0.59 (0.45–0.74) 0.65 (0.50–0.80) 0.55 (0.40–0.69) 0.59 (0.43–0.73)
CVP Median filtering 0.79 (0.69–0.87) 0.80 (0.70–0.88) 0.78 (0.68–0.85) 0.78 (0.69–0.86)
ArtiDetect 0.80 (0.70–0.88) 0.86 (0.77–0.93) 0.77 (0.68–0.84) 0.83 (0.74–0.89)
Tree induction 0.68 (0.57–0.78) 0.79 (0.68–0.88) 0.63 (0.52–0.72) 0.71 (0.60–0.81)
HR Median filtering 0.52 (0.35–0.69) 0.83 (0.61–0.94) 0.48 (0.31–0.63) 0.73 (0.55–0.85)
ArtiDetect 0.40 (0.24–0.57) 0.65 (0.41–0.82) 0.40 (0.25–0.55) 0.63 (0.38–0.78)
Tree induction 0.57 (0.37–0.71) 0.70 (0.49–0.86) 0.44 (0.27–0.60) 0.57 (0.38–0.73)

The performance is quantified in terms of the 10-fold cross-validated sensitivity and positive predictive value (PPV) in the set of time series (95% confidence interval).