Sentences with phrase «diagnostic performance»

The resulting model can be used to optimize individual scan parameters and provide for consistent diagnostic performance across the broad range of body sizes in children, the authors reported.

Their paper, «MR - guided Near Infrared Spectral Tomography Increases Diagnostic Performance of Breast MRI,» was published in Clinical Cancer Research.

RNA expression signatures (determined with a blood sample) distinguishing definite bacterial from viral infection were identified in the discovery group and diagnostic performance assessed in the validation group.

Further studies are needed to develop psychometric tools with stronger diagnostic performance for OCD assessment.

High - sensitivity troponin I concentrations that were below the limit of detection identified 19 percent of patients as being potentially suitable for immediate discharge, with a high diagnostic performance in excluding AMI.

The method uses statistical analyses to identify critical patterns that measure the rate of diagnostic error and could be incorporated into diagnostic performance dashboards.

We also demonstrate that cutoff values above the lower limit of detection may not have the required diagnostic performance for clinical implementation,» the authors write.

As the team reports in Biomicrofluidics, from AIP Publishing, until now such a multiplexed barcode detection approach has only been performed in time - consuming observation procedures, significantly hindering its possible diagnostic performance.

«In the future, the development of new methods for analyzing whole - genome sequencing data will make it possible to improve diagnostic performance.»

Battling Breast Cancer Beyond diagnostic performance digital versus film mammography breast - cancer screening.

In «Evaluation of 18F - Fluoride PET / MR and PET / CT in Patients with Foot Pain of Unclear Cause,» researchers compared the quality and diagnostic performance of 18F - fluoride PET / MR to those of 18F - fluoride PET / CT in 22 patients for whom the specific diagnosis was inconclusive after clinical examination and radiography.

Viviane Calice - Silva, MD, PhD (Pro-Kidney Foundation, Brazil) and her colleagues evaluated the diagnostic performance of a salivary urea nitrogen (SUN) dipstick, in Malawi, a low resource country in Africa.

In one study, Edward Carlton, Ph.D., of the North Bristol National Health Service Trust, Bristol, England and colleagues determined the diagnostic performance of low concentrations of high - sensitivity cardiac troponin I in patients with suspected cardiac chest pain and an electrocardiogram showing no ischemia as an indicator of acute myocardial infarction (AMI; heart attack).

It is the first systematic review and meta - analysis to assess the diagnostic performance of BMI to identify excess body fat as compared with techniques considered reference standard to measure obesity.

A key strength of the study is that the diagnostic performance was compared against full karyotyping, which is the gold standard for aneuploidy diagnosis.

This article by Hsu et al from the NIH shows promising diagnostic accuracy for a new fully automatic, pixel-wise, quantitative stress perfusion by CMR: Diagnostic Performance of Fully Automated Pixel-Wise Quantitative Myocardial Perfusion Imaging by Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance.