TABLE I.

Results of the detection of irregular beats on artificially-corrupted R-R series. Our method (PP) is compared with three reference methods (Rand 2007, Mateo 2003, and Berntson 1990) and the percentage of correct detection (Corr) of normal (“N”) beats and artificially corrupted beats (“s”, “e”, “m”, See text) is reported.

Series	$\overline{\mathrm{\Delta }{t}_r}[\text{ms}]$	Tot #	PP		Rand2007		Mateo2003		Berntson1990
			Corr [%]	CT [%]	Corr [%]	CT [%]	Corr [%]	CT [%]	Corr [%]	CT [%]
N		60017	99.985	-	99.880	-	99.923	-	99.938	-
s		602	100.000	99.502	100.000	94.518	95.681	94.186	100.000	-
e		602	100.000	99.834	100.000	96.379	99.668	99.668	100.000	-
m q = 2	68	602	40.864	36.877	11.628	1.661	40.199	33.223	5.316	-
m q = 4	137	602	96.013	93.189	54.153	17.110	96.844	83.887	18.106	-
m q = 8	322	602	100.000	98.173	94.352	68.771	100.000	90.033	74.917	-
m q = 16	466	602	100.000	99.336	100.000	93.355	99.834	84.385	95.515	-