Table 5.

Comparison between the results (Sensitivity and FDR) achieved with our method to those obtained by applying a standard spindle detection technique (Mölle et al., 2002), and to those achieved by a hybrid approach where we use the proposed TQWT + MCA analysis as a pre-processing step before running the standard RMS-based detection procedure.

	Filtering + RMS (Mölle et al., 2002)				Current study
	Standard		With TQWT		Expert 1	Expert2
	Expert 1	Expert 2	Expert 1	Expert 2
Sensitivity	70.30	70.56	74.06	75.88	83.18	83.10
FDR	49.45	46.21	42.22	37.24	39	19.66

The performances of these three approaches are reported against Expert 1 and Expert 2 independently. The best results were achieved with the method proposed in this study.