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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Heart Rhythm. 2015 Jun 19;12(10):2058–2066. doi: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2015.06.030

Table 4.

Thresholds that give minimum costs and classification performance for prediction of recurrences of VF, VFL and SCD for γ = 1, δ = 10.

Thresholds with minimal costs Sensitivity (%) Specificity (%) PPV (%) NPV (%) CHF patients excluded (%)
α1≤.43 or α2≤.66 or LF/HF ≤ .60 91.4 55.9 27.2 97.3 48.7
α1≤.40 or α2≤.71 or TS ≤ 1.05 84.3 60.6 27.8 95.5 53.7
α1≤.45 or α2≤.69 or number of PVCs/hr ≤ 19 85.7 57.7 26.8 95.7 51.1
α1≤.48 or α2≤.80 or HRVTI ≤ 15.8 87.1 56.2 26.4 96.0 49.6