Summary receiver operating characteristic curve analysis techniques in the evaluation of diagnostic tests

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 16-20

  Jones, Catherine M ^a   Athanasiou, Thanos ^a,b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Robotic Minimally Invasive C   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; HUMAN; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RISK; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; AREA UNDER CURVE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; META-ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 11144351843     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2004.09.040     Document Type: Article

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