Performance estimation of diagnostic tests for cervical precancer based on fluorescence spectroscopy: effects of tissue type sample size population and signal-to-noise ratio

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1293-1303

  Utzinger, Urs ^a   Vanessa Trujillo, E ^b   Neely Atkinson, E ^b   Mitchell, Michèle F ^b   Cantor, Scott B ^a   Richards Kortum, Rebecca ^a,b  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervix; Cost effectiveness analysis; Diagnosis; Fluorescence spectroscopy; Precancer; Signal to noise ratio (SNR)

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRECANCER; RELIABILITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; UTERINE CERVIX;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BAYES THEOREM; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 0032711173     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/10.797989     Document Type: Article

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