Table 2. Quality assessment according to the Quality Assessment of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies 2 (QUADAS-2) criteria.
Study | Patient selection | Index test (machine learning) | Reference standard | Flow and timing | Patient selection |
Index test |
Reference standard |
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Consecutive | Case- control |
Inappropriate exclusion |
Blinded to reference standard |
Prespecified- threshold |
Correctly classified target condition |
Blinded to index test |
Adequate interval: index to reference standard |
All patients with reference standard |
Same reference standard |
All patients analyzed |
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*Referred to the studies included subjects with normal sinus rhythm and congestive heart failure/left ventricular systolic dysfunction patients from pubic database respectively. **Referred to the studies did not describe whether thresholds have been specified for machine learning data sets. ***Referred to the studies enrolled left ventricular systolic dysfunction patients with other diseases, such as diabetes mellitus, kidney disease, etc. | ||||||||||||||||||
Pecchia, et al.[20] |
Unclear | Yes* | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unclear | High | High | ||||
Chen, et al.[22] |
Unclear | Yes* | No | Yes | Unclear** | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unclear | High | High | ||||
Acharya, et al.[21] |
Unclear | Yes* | No | Yes | Unclear** | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unclear | High | High | ||||
Acharya, et al.[23] |
Unclear | Yes* | No | Yes | Unclear** | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unclear | High | High | ||||
Attia, et al.[28] |
Unclear | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Low*** | High | High | ||||
Hussain, et al.[24] |
Unclear | Yes* | No | Yes | Unclear** | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unclear | High | High | ||||
Lih, et al.[25] |
Unclear | Yes* | No | Yes | Unclear** | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unclear | High | High | ||||
Adedinsewo, et al.[29] |
Yes | No | No | Yes | Unclear** | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Low*** | High | High | ||||
Yang, et al.[27] |
Unclear | Yes* | No | Yes | Unclear** | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unclear | High | High | ||||
Attia, et al.[30] |
Unclear | No | No | Yes | Unclear** | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Low*** | High | High | ||||
Jahmunah, et al.[26] |
Unclear | Yes* | No | Yes | Unclear** | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unclear | High | High |