Diagnostic Accuracy Measures
Author(s) -
Paolo Eusebi
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
cerebrovascular diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.221
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1421-9786
pISSN - 1015-9770
DOI - 10.1159/000353863
Subject(s) - medicine , diagnostic odds ratio , receiver operating characteristic , diagnostic accuracy , diagnostic test , discriminative model , population , positive predicative value , cut point , disease , statistics , predictive value , machine learning , pathology , pediatrics , computer science , environmental health , mathematics
An increasing number of diagnostic tests and biomarkers have been validated during the last decades, and this will still be a prominent field of research in the future because of the need for personalized medicine. Strict evaluation is needed whenever we aim at validating any potential diagnostic tool, and the first requirement a new testing procedure must fulfill is diagnostic accuracy.
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