Two contrasting paradigms for structuring news events and storylines are identified and described: the automated paradigm and the manual paradigm. A specific manual news structuring system is described, and the highlevel results of three reporting experiments conducted using the system are presented. In light of these results I then compare automated and manual approaches and argue that they ar...

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...

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 ...

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...

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), ...

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...

PURPOSE To study the interscan reproducibility of manual versus automated segmentation of carotid artery plaque components, and the agreement between both methods, in high and lower quality MRI scans. METHODS 24 patients with 30-70% carotid artery stenosis were planned for 3T carotid MRI, followed by a rescan within 1 month. A multicontrast protocol (T1w,T2w, PDw and TOF sequences) was used. ...

The skin conductance response (SCR) is increasingly being used as a measure of sympathetic activation concurrent with neuroscience measurements. We present a method of automated analysis of SCR data in the contexts of event-related cognitive tasks and nonspecific responding to complex stimuli. The primary goal of the method is to accurately measure the classical trough-to-peak amplitude of SCR ...