Disadvantages of using the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve to assess imaging tests: a discussion and proposal for an alternative approach

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• The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC AUC) measures diagnostic accuracy. • Confidence scores used to build ROC curves may be difficult to assign. • False-positive and false-negative diagnoses have different misclassification costs. • Excessive ROC curve extrapolation is u …
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Authors Halligan S;Altman DG;Mallett S;;
Journal European radiology
Year 2015
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National Center for Biotechnology Information NCBI NLM MEDLINE humans pubmed abstract nih national institutes of health national library of medicine reproducibility of results research support non-u.s. gov't sensitivity and specificity douglas g altman area under curve* pmid:25599932 pmc4356897 doi:10.1007/s00330-014-3487-0 steve halligan susan mallett colonography computed tomographic / statistics & numerical data diagnostic imaging / statistics & numerical data* roc curve*

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