OBJECTIVES:: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis on the validity (test-retest reliability and accuracy) of automated threshold audiometry compared with the gold standard of manual threshold audiometry was conducted. DESIGN:: A systematic literature review was completed in peer-reviewed databases on automated compared with manual threshold audiometry. Subsequently a meta-analysis wa...

Micropitting is a surface fatigue phenomenon, on the scale of roughness, which can be significant problem in heavily loaded mixed lubrication contacts power transmission gearing. Modern profilometry equipment allows detailed areal measurements micropitted surfaces to obtained. However, processing these determine extent micropitting difficult and often involves manual or semi-manual evaluation. ...

An automated hemagglutination-inhibition (HI) test for the "shipping fever" strain (SF-4) of parainfluenza 3 antibody in bovine sera was developed and compared to manual tube and microtiter test procedures. The automated system operating at 60 samples per hr provided the most test results per specified time period, and the manual tube test provided the least. The manual microtiter test and the ...

UNLABELLED CT-based attenuation correction is a widely used option in commercial PET/CT scanners. However, as a result of a nonsimultaneous acquisition and differences in temporal resolution between both modalities, a potential misregistration between the PET and CT, especially in the thorax and the upper abdomen, can be found. We observed a substantial number of apparent perfusion defects in s...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to assess the accuracy and measurement variability of automated lesion measurement on CT colonography in comparison with manual 2D and 3D techniques under varying scanning conditions. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study included phantoms (23 phantom objects) and patients (16 polyps). Measurement with sliding calipers served as the reference for the phantom ...

Recent studies have found that automated retrieval methods in ediscovery are not only cheaper than manual review, but are also as or more reliable. We argue that these studies, while suggestive, are not conclusive. There is a high variability in the quality of unsupervised manual reviewers, as data from the TREC Legal Track shows. The best manual reviewers are as reliable as automated methods, ...

BACKGROUND Study on automated three-dimensional (3D) quantification of left heart parameters by using Heartmodel software is still in the early stage and fully automatic analysis was not clearly achieved. The aim of our study was to evaluate the performance of this new technology in measuring left ventricular (LV) volume and ejection fraction (EF) in patients with a variety of heart diseases on...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the performance of the automated semen quality analyzer system for assessing sperm quality. DESIGN Double-blind prospective study. SETTING Tertiary care hospital. PATIENT(S) Fifty healthy men donated semen samples. INTERVENTION(S) None. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE(S) Precision, accuracy and agreement between automated and manual semen analysis methods was assessed for s...

BACKGROUND Numerous studies have shown smoothing and inaccuracies in handwritten anaesthetic records, but the clinical relevance of these findings is unclear. We therefore sought to determine whether the behaviour of anaesthetists differed in assessing anaesthetic records re-synthesized from either handwritten or automated records. METHODS In a recent New Zealand study (ACTRN12608000068369), ...