ASSESSMENT OF THE DIAGNOSTIC PERFORMANCE OF ECG COMPUTER PROGRAMS
Willems Jos L. · Studies in health technology and informatics · 1993
Methods : A large international study was undertaken to compare 9 ECG and 6 vectorcardiographic (VCG) computer programs using 1220 clinically validated cases. The same ECGs were also read by 9 cardiologists, 8 of whom analysed the ECG and 5 the VCG. The following diagnostic groups were included : normals (N=382) ; left (N=183), right (N=55) and biventricular (N=53) hypertrophy ; anterior (N=170), inferior (N=273) and combined (N=73) myocardial infarction ; combined infarction and hypertrophy (N=31).