An open-source tool to evaluate performance of transient ST segment episode detection algorithms

Performance measures and evaluation protocols for evaluating the performance and robustness of transient ST segment episode detection algorithms are specific, complex and not trivial to realize. We developed an open-source tool (EVAL_ST) to evaluate and compare performance and robustness of ST episode detection algorithms. The tool supports all standard and other relevant performance measures, aggregate gross and average statistics, and bootstrap statistical procedure to predict real-world clinical performance. The tool (written in C) is compilable on a wide variety of platforms and contains an additional graphic user interface module (LessTif/Motif environment) for use on the LINUX/UNIX operating systems.