abstract background and aims: paper-pencil tests have always its own problems in the mental disorders evaluation, including learning questions, bad or good blazon are the problems with this methodology. this study aimed to propose a new alternative method of measuring mental disorders without paper-pencil test using eeg. methods: the research society involved depressed patients referred the psy...

We increased the specificity of flow cytometric detection of platelet-associated immunoglobulin (PAIg) by a combination of platelet gating and cutoff for positivity determined by the use of receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis, and we evaluated the significance of elevated PAIg in non-immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) patients. Blood samples from 118 patients with a platel...

AIMS The QT interval in the surface ECG is one of the most often used risk stratifiers in families with congenital long QT syndrome (LQTS). The best ECG lead for clinical management of LQTS families remains unclear. METHODS AND RESULTS The predictive power of the QTc interval in all ECG leads was studied in 200 consecutive genotyped LQTS family members to identify mutation carriers (n = 103; ...

1 Graduate Institute of Oral Sciences, College of Oral Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC. 2 Graduate School of Dentistry, College of Oral Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC. 3 Department of Dentistry, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC. 4 Department of Dentistry, Wan-Fang Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC. ...

Centers for Disease Control, Department of Health, Taiwan, ROC Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taiwan, ROC Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taiwan, ROC Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital and...

The P-RoC process – the phosphorus recovery straight from the aqueous phase by crystallisation of calcium phosphate – was developed in order to simultaneously remove and recover phosphorus from municipal wasteand industrial process waters by applying calcium silicate hydrate (CSH) compounds or synthesised tobermorite pellets as crystallisation seed materials. At first, the experiments were perf...

One hundred eighty-four serum samples from patients with ovarian cancer (n = 109), patients with benign tumors (n = 19), and healthy donors (n = 56) were analyzed on strong anion-exchange surfaces using surface-enhanced laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry technology. Univariate and multivariate statistical analyses applied to protein-profiling data obtained from 140 tra...

OBJECTIVE To perform a prospective validation and comparative analysis of two ultrasonographic diagnostic scores of cirrhosis in patients with silent liver disease. DESIGN cross-sectional study, prospective and blind. ROC curves evaluated the diagnostic utility of: a) Bologna score (BS): assessment of liver surface nodularity and portal flow velocity, and b) Cadiz score (CS): assessment of li...

Received Jun 5, 2016 Revised Aug 8, 2016 Accepted August 24, 2016 Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve is an important technique for organizing classifiers and visualizing their performance in tactical systems in the presence of jamming signal. ROC curves are commonly used to evaluate the performance of classifiers for anomalies detection. This paper gives a survey of ROC analysis base...