About the Authors

Mathias Baumert

mathias.baumert@adelaide.edu.au

Affiliations School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia, Centre for Heart Rhythm Disorders, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

Vito Starc

Affiliation School of Medicine, The University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Alberto Porta

Affiliation Department of Technologies for Health, Galeazzi Orthopedic Institute, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

Competing Interests

VS is the inventor of a patent related to the template time shifting algorithm (US7983742), currently owned by CardioSoft, Houston, Texas, and utilized for scientific research purposes only. VS was not involved in the study design and blinded to the results obtained with other algorithms. Thus the objectivity of the authors' results is unaffected. There are no further patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MB AP. Performed the experiments: MB VS AP. Analyzed the data: MB VS AP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MB VS AP. Wrote the paper: MB VS AP.