The terms 'false-positive' and 'false-negative' are widely used in discussions of urine drug test (UDT) results. These terms are inadequate because they are used in different ways by physicians and laboratory professionals and they are too narrow to encompass the larger universe of potentially misleading, inappropriate and unexpected drug test results. This larger universe, while not solely com...

Since the link rate is very high up to 40Gbps these days, scanning packets can spread very fast. At this high speed, only a small chance of missing on-going scanning activity can lead to catastrophic results. Thus, fast and accurate detection of scanners is a very important problem. High-speed packet processing usually requires high-speed memory, SRAM, and the size of SRAM is very limited compa...

This paper addresses the problem of maximum margin classification given the moments of class conditional densities and the false positive and false negative error rates. Using Chebyshev inequalities, the problem can be posed as a second order cone programming problem. The dual of the formulation leads to a geometric optimization problem, that of computing the distance between two ellipsoids, wh...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE We aimed to investigate the optimal timing of diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) in patients with transient ischemic attack (TIA). METHODS Seventy-three consecutive patients with TIA underwent DWI on admission (initial DWI) and at 24 hours after admission (second DWI). Patients were divided into 2 groups based on initial DWI findings in relation to the second examination:...

The goal of this study was to improve assessment of diagnostic measures for lateral localization of aldosterone-producing adrenal adenomas preparatory to retroperitoneoscopic removal, in view of the fact that this technique allows for only unilateral access. A retrospective study was carried out of the medical records of 64 patients (38 women, 26 men, average age 46.8 ± 11.2) who underwent surg...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of integrated (18) F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (FDG-PET/CT) in hilar and mediastinal lymph node (HMLN) staging of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), and to investigate potential risk factors for false-negative and false-positive HMLN metastases. METHODS We examined the data of 3...