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. 2015 Nov 19;9:624. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00624

Table 1.

Spindle detection agreement between our CWT detector, SIESTA algorithm and human scorer.

Agreement measure CWT vs. SIESTA CWT vs. Human SIESTA vs. Human
Stage 2 SWS Stage 2 Stage 2
Sensitivity 0.77 0.64 0.72 0.62
Specificity 0.93 0.94 0.90 0.92
Precision 0.61 0.66 0.40 0.43
Kappa 0.62 0.56 0.45 0.44
Adjusted geometric mean 0.88 0.85 0.85 0.83
Matthews correlation 0.63 0.57 0.48 0.46
Spindle density correlation 0.86 0.80 0.73 0.55

Sleep spindles were scored in the C3A2 EEG channel. CWT, continuous wavelet transform; SWS, slow wave sleep.