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<journal-id>1390-860X</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Ingenius. Revista de Ciencia y Tecnología ]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Ingenius]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>1390-860X</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Universidad Politécnica Salesiana]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S1390-860X2020000200059</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.17163/ings.n24.2020.06</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Detección de la muerte súbita cardíaca usando el método espectral adaptativo sobre la onda t: estudio experimental sobre bases de datos públicas]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Detection of sudden cardiac death using the adaptive spectral method on the t wave: an experimental study on public databases]]></article-title>
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<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Flores-Calero]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Marco]]></given-names>
</name>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Pilla-Barroso]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Melisa]]></given-names>
</name>
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</contrib>
</contrib-group>
<aff id="Af2">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Ecuador</country>
</aff>
<aff id="Af3">
<institution><![CDATA[,Profesional en libre ejercicio,  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Ecuador</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2020</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2020</year>
</pub-date>
<numero>24</numero>
<fpage>59</fpage>
<lpage>67</lpage>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.senescyt.gob.ec/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S1390-860X2020000200059&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.senescyt.gob.ec/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S1390-860X2020000200059&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.senescyt.gob.ec/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S1390-860X2020000200059&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Abstract T-wave alternans (TWA) analysis is one of the main techniques for determining whether an individual is at risk of sudden cardiac death (SCD). Among the existing methods for determining TWA is the adaptive spectral method (SM-Adaptive), which uses time-frequency distributions (TFD) for the analysis. The objective of the study is to apply the method on main public databases in order to detect the presence or absence of alternations, and to obtain quality parameters of the aforementioned method. The method was tested on synthetic signals, 90 signals without TWA and 450 with TWA; on the other hand, 10 signals from Physionet&#8217;s TWADB database belonging to healthy patients and 26 signals from patients with risk factors associated to SCD were used. Tests with synthetic signals showed a sensitivity of 94.89%, specificity of 92.22% and accuracy of 94.44%. As for the tests in the database, the method exhibits an accuracy of 80.56%, which indicates that the SM-Adaptive method enables detecting TWA with an acceptable accuracy and, in addition, it shows greater robustness against noise and stationary data.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen El análisis de la alternancia de la onda T (TWA, T-wave alternants) constituye una de las principales técnicas para determinar la presencia del síndrome de muerte súbita cardíaca (MSC). Entre los métodos existentes para determinar TWA se encuentra el método espectral adaptativo (SM-Adaptativo), el cual utiliza distribuciones en tiempo-frecuencia (TFD, time-frecuency distribution) para el análisis. El objetivo del estudio es aplicar este método sobre las principales bases de datos públicas con el fin de detectar la presencia o ausencia de alternancias y obtener parámetros de calidad del método en mención. El método fue probado en señales sintéticas, 90 señales sin TWA y 450 con TWA; por otro lado, se utilizaron 10 señales de la base de datos TWADB de Physionet pertenecientes a pacientes sanos y 26 señales de pacientes con factores de riesgo asociados a la MSC. En las pruebas con señales sintéticas se obtuvo una sensibilidad de 94,89 %, especificidad de 92,22 % y exactitud de 94,44 %. En cuanto a las pruebas en la base de datos el método presenta una exactitud del 80,56 %, lo que indica que el método SM-Adaptativo permite detectar TWA con una exactitud aceptable, además, que presenta mayor robustez frente a ruido y a la estacionariedad de datos.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[ECG]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[sudden cardiac death]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[T-wave alternans]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[SM-Adaptive]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[ECG]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[muerte súbita cardíaca]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[alternancia de la onda T]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[SM-Adaptativo]]></kwd>
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