Sensitivity and Specificity of the Next-Generation Multitarget Stool DNA Test and the Commercial FIT.* * ... (Table S14). In these analyses, sensitivity for colorectal cancer was 93.7% (95% CI, ...

When developing diagnostic tests or evaluating results, it is important to understand how reliable those tests and therefore the results you are obtaining are. By using samples of known disease status ...

An ideal test rarely overlooks the thing you are looking for (i.e., it is sensitive) and rarely mistakes it for something else (i.e. it is specific). Therefore, when evaluating diagnostic tests, it is ...

Generally, however, a trade-off must be made between sensitivity and specificity. ... sensitivity of 15-67% has been reported at a specificity of >90% (Table 4).

Table 3 Sensitivity and specificity by the detection method according to histological type, smoking status and rank of screening; (a) low-dose CT group and (b) chest X-ray group.

The following is a summary of “Performance of classification criteria for spondyloarthritis: where do we stand in many Latin ...

Now, 100% sensitivity and 95% specificity have a very different meaning. In a group of 100,000 patients, the algorithm would detect the rare tumors in only 5,000 scans.

The overall diagnostic performance of CT colonography in detecting at least one lesion (adenoma or cancer) measuring 5 mm or more in diameter is shown in Table 2. The mean (±SD) sensitivity ...

Youden's J-value was calculated from the calculated sensitivity and specificity of each test ( Table 2). ... (93.7 and 100%, respectively), but had low specificity ( Table 4).