MIXTURE DISTRIBUTION AND RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC ANALYSIS OF BEDSIDE CHEST IMAGING WITH SCREEN-FILM AND COMPUTED RADIOGRAPHY

Citation
Hl. Kundel et M. Polansky, MIXTURE DISTRIBUTION AND RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC ANALYSIS OF BEDSIDE CHEST IMAGING WITH SCREEN-FILM AND COMPUTED RADIOGRAPHY, Academic radiology, 4(1), 1997, pp. 1-7
Citations number
19
Categorie Soggetti
Radiology,Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
Journal title
ISSN journal
10766332
Volume
4
Issue
1
Year of publication
1997
Pages
1 - 7
Database
ISI
SICI code
1076-6332(1997)4:1<1:MDAROC>2.0.ZU;2-8
Abstract
Rationale and Objectives. The authors demonstrated the use of mixture distribution analysis as an alternative to receiver operating characte ristic (ROC) analysis in a clinical study, where independent verificat ion of the imaging diagnosis is not always feasible. Methods. ROC and mixture distribution analyses were applied to the blind readings of fo ur radiologists on a stratified, random sample of 95 screen-film radio graphs and 95 computed radiographs of the chest obtained from a medica l intensive care unit. The imaging diagnosis established by an expert panel was used as the truth for the ROC analysis, and agreement of rat ings was used for the mixture distribution analysis. Results. Both met hods yielded similar values for the proportion of correct diagnoses. C onclusion. Mixture distribution analysis may be useful for comparing i maging techniques in situations where the true imaging diagnosis canno t be established with a method independent of that being evaluated.