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Calculation of the minimal clinically important difference in operated patients with adult spine deformity: advantages of the ROC method and significance of prevalence in threshold selection
PurposeThe Minimal Clinically Important Difference (MCID) is crucial to evaluate management outcomes, but different thresholds have been obtained in...
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ROC curve analysis: a useful statistic multi-tool in the research of nephrology
In the past decade, scientific research in the area of Nephrology has focused on evaluating the clinical utility and performance of various...
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Influential factors on disease activity in Crohn’s disease and their Roc curve evaluation: a cross-sectional study
ObjectiveThis study aims to investigate the factors influencing disease activity in patients with Crohn’s disease (CD) and provide insights and...
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Methods of determining optimal cut-point of diagnostic biomarkers with application of clinical data in ROC analysis: an update review
IntroductionAn important application of ROC analysis is the determination of the optimal cut-point for biomarkers in diagnostic studies. This...
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Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) to determine cut-off points of clinical and biomolecular markers to discriminate mortality in severe COVID-19 living at high altitude
BackgroundIn 2020, Ecuador had one of the highest death rates because of COVID-19. The role of clinical and biomolecular markers in COVID disease...
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Clinical Performance Evaluation of an Artificial Intelligence-Powered Amyloid Brain PET Quantification Method
PurposeThis study assesses the clinical performance of BTXBrain-Amyloid, an artificial intelligence-powered software for quantifying amyloid uptake...
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Method for Activity Sleep Harmonization (MASH): a novel method for harmonizing data from two wearable devices to estimate 24-h sleep–wake cycles
BackgroundDaily 24-h sleep–wake cycles have important implications for health, however researcher preferences in choice and location of wearable...
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Which sagittal plane assessment method is most predictive of complications after adult spinal deformity surgery?
PurposeDifferent methods of sagittal alignment assessment compete for predicting adverse events after adult spinal deformity (ASD) surgery. We wanted...
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Comparison of the diagnostic performance of the Swischuk line method and the anterior atlantodental interval method in atlantodental subluxation
BackgroundAtlantodental subluxation (ADS) is a serious condition that can result in sudden death. Measuring the anterior atlantodental interval (AADI...
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The diagnostic value of a new ultrasonographic method for the measurement of a taller-than-wide shape of benign and malignant thyroid nodules
PurposeTo evaluate the diagnostic value of a new ultrasonographic method in the measurement of thyroid nodules with a taller-than-wide (TTW) shape.
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Efficacy of exponentiation method with a convolutional neural network for classifying lung nodules on CT images by malignancy level
ObjectivesThe aim of this study was to examine the performance of a convolutional neural network (CNN) combined with exponentiating each pixel value...
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Systematic evaluation of vertebral bone quality score as an opportunistic screening method for BMD in spine surgery patients
PurposeThis study aimed to evaluate and compare the predictive value of vertebral bone quality (VBQ) score for low BMD and osteoporosis. Furthermore,...
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The anchor design of anchor-based method to determine the minimal clinically important difference: a systematic review
BackgroundPositive results for clinical outcomes should be not only statistically significant, but also clinically significant. The minimum...
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Development of a whole spinal MRI-based tumor burden scoring method in participants with multiple myeloma: a pilot study of prognostic significance
The aim of the study was to develop a new whole spinal MRI-based tumor burden scoring method in participants with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma...
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A new method to estimate the histological stage of primary biliary cholangitis
ObjectiveTo analyze the diagnostic efficacy of the periportal hypoechoic band (PHB) in the histological stage of patients with primary biliary...
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Development of a salivary IgA detection method for accurate diagnosis of amebiasis
An amebiasis detection method was developed based on identifying anti- Entamoeba histolytica IgA in the saliva of infected individuals. The...
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Development of a classification method for mild liver fibrosis using non-contrast CT image
PurposeDetection of early-stage liver fibrosis has direct clinical implications on patient management and treatment. The aim of this paper is to...
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Spectral CT - a new supplementary method for preoperative assessment of pathological grades of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma
BackgroundSpectral CT imaging parameters have been reported to be useful in the differentiation of pathological grades in different malignancies....
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Nodal staging with MRI after neoadjuvant chemo-radiotherapy for locally advanced rectal cancer: a fast and reliable method
ObjectivesIn patients with locally advanced rectal carcinoma (LARC), negative nodal status after neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (nCRT) may allow for...
