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Using options -C, -L, or -S, rxr implements the run-by-run comparison algorithms described in ANSI/AAMI EC38:1998, the American National Standard for Ambulatory ECGs, and in ANSI/AAMI EC57:1998, the American National Standard for Testing and Reporting Performance Results of Cardiac Rhythm and ST Segment Measurement Algorithms. rxr is the reference implementation of these algorithms, and must be used to obtain the run-by-run performance statistics cited in EC38 and EC57 in order to be in compliance with the standards (see EC38, section 5.2.14, and EC57, section 4.2).
Input to this program consists of two annotation files associated with the same record. One of these is designated the reference annotation file, the other the test annotation file (called the ‘algorithm’ annotation file in EC38 and in EC57).
Options include:
At most one of -c, -C, -l, -L, -s, and -S can be given as an option. If ‘-’ is given as a file argument, reports are written on the standard output. If no options are specified, rxr writes standard reports on the standard output (equivalent to using the option -s -). The output generated by selecting -l or -L includes column headings only if a file other than ‘-’ is specified, and only if the specified file does not already exist. In this way, rxr can be used repeatedly to build up a line-format table for multiple records, for further processing by sumstats(1) .
The -v option specifies that each mismatch is described on
the standard output in a format similar to:
3/5(120188-121065)
where the first number is the reference run length, the second is the test
run length (each of these is between 0 and 6), and the numbers in parentheses
indicate the location of the match window in sample intervals.
It may be necessary to set and export the shell variable WFDB (see setwfdb(1) ).
Since rxr performs multiple passes over its input files, it cannot be used at the end of a pipe.
Evaluating ECG Analyzers (in the WFDB Applications
Guide)
Ambulatory Electrocardiographs (ANSI/AAMI EC38:1998)
Testing and Reporting Performance Results of Cardiac Rhythm and ST Segment
Measurement Algorithms (ANSI/AAMI EC57:1998)
The last two of these publications are available from AAMI, 1110 N Glebe Road, Suite 220, Arlington, VA 22201 USA (http://www.aami.org/).
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