ROC analysis in patient specific quality assurance

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Carlone, Marco ^a,b,c   Cruje, Charmainne ^a   Rangel, Alejandra ^a   McCabe, Ryan ^a   Nielsen, Michelle ^a   MacPherson, Miller ^a,b,c  

^a CREDIT VALLEY HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

IMRT; quality assurance; ROC; sensitivity; specificity

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; LARGE DATASET; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY CONTROL; UROLOGY;

IMRT; MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; OPTIMAL THRESHOLD; PREDICTIVE POWER; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS; SENSITIVITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIFICITY;

RANDOM ERRORS;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MALE; MULTILEAF COLLIMATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOM ERROR; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; CANADA; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; MAGNETIC AND ELECTROMAGNETIC EQUIPMENT; PATIENT CARE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOMETRY; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CANADA; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PATIENT-CENTERED CARE; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; ROC CURVE;

EID: 84876167295     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4795757     Document Type: Article

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