We analyze the utility of multiscale supervised classification algorithms for object detection and extraction from laser scanning or photogrammetric point clouds. Only the geometric information (the point ...
Background and Objectives: Diabetes is a chronic and metabolic disease, considered as an important public health problem. The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of podiatric pathology ...
Objective: To find autoantibodies (AAbs) in serum that could be useful to predict incidence of radiographic knee osteoarthritis (KOA). Design: A Nucleic-acid Programmable Protein Arrays (NAPPA) platform ...
Epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) constitutes a novel parameter for cardiometabolic risk assessment and a target for therapy. Here, we evaluated for the first time the plasma microRNA (miRNA) profile as ...
The use of the area under the receiver-operating characteristic, ROC, curve (AUC) as an index of diagnostic accuracy is overwhelming in fields such as biomedical science and machine learning. It seems ...
Background
Serum phosphate is a key parameter in the management of chronic kidney disease-mineral and bone disorder (CKD-MBD). The timing of phosphate measurement is not standardized in the current guidelines. ...
Assessment of the diagnostic accuracy of biomarkers through receiver operating characteristic curve analysis frequently involves a limit of detection imposed by the laboratory analytical system precision. ...
OBJECTIVE: We aimed to compare the diagnostic utility of the STOP-Bang questionnaire for moderate apnoea against the gold standard (type I polysomnography) in a primary care setting.
METHOD: Study of ...
Accurate diagnosis of disease is of fundamental importance in clinical practice and medical research. Before a medical diagnostic test is routinely used in practice, its ability to distinguish between ...
The purpose of this paper is two fold. First, we investigate estimation for varying coefficient partially linear models in which covariates in the nonparametric part are measured with errors. As there ...
This paper focuses on the consequences of assuming a wrong model for multinomial data when using minimum penalized phi-divergence, also known as minimum penalized disparity estimators, to estimate the ...
Prior to using a diagnostic test in a routine clinical setting, the rigorous evaluation of its diagnostic accuracy is essential. The receiver-operating characteristic curve is the measure of accuracy most ...
Objectives: to determine the quality of life and anxiety in patients with breast cancer and the changes they experience after treatments. Method: prospective study. Breast cancer statistics (n=339, confidence=95%, ...
For the high-dimensional partially linear varying coefficient models where covariates in the nonparametric part are measured with additive errors, we, in this paper, study asymptotic distributions of a ...
Before the use of a diagnostic test in a routine clinical setting, the rigorous evaluation of its diagnostic accuracy is an essential step. The receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve is the measure ...
Consider the heteroscedastic partially linear errors-in-variables (EV) model yi = xiβ + g(ti) + εi, ξi = xi + μi (1 ⩽ i ⩽ n), where εi = σiei are random errors with mean zero, σ2i = f(ui), (xi, ti, ui) ...
Background
There is no universal consensus on the best staging system for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Although documents (eg, the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease ...
IntroductionThe differential diagnosis of malignant and tuberculous pleural effusion is frequently difficult.
ObjectivesThe aim of our study is to determine the discrimination value of demographic ...
A class of goodness-of-fit tests of the Cramer-von Mises type is considered. More specifically, the test statistic of each test is an L-2-norm of the difference between the empirical characteristic function ...
In this paper a methodology to compare two point clouds of an object, obtained with different equipment or in different conditions, is proposed. First, the point clouds are registered to the same reference ...
Recent years have witnessed a growing use of terrestrial laser scanners to determine the geometry of tunnels, although the companies that perform this task do not, as a rule, apply a methodology that enables ...
Reliable information on the geographic location of individual points using GPS (Global Positioning System) receivers requires an unobstructed line of sight from the points to a minimum of four satellites. ...
The receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve is the most widely used measure for evaluating the accuracy of diagnostic tests in terms of differentiating between two conditions. It is known that, in ...
Since masonry arch is one of the most common structural forms in both historic bridges and in architecture across the world such as domes and vaults, its dimensional and structural analysis is still the ...