BACKGROUND Histopathology has initially been and is still used to diagnose infectious, degenerative or neoplastic diseases in humans or animals. In addition to qualitative diagnoses semiquantitative scoring of a lesion`s magnitude on an ordinal scale is a commonly demanded task for histopathologists. Multiparametric, semiquantitative scoring systems for mouse models histopathology are a common ...

3 Scoring Systems ....................................................... 17 3.1 Alvarado Score or MANTRELS Score .................... 17 3.2 Other Scoring Systems .............................................. 17 3.3 Pediatric Appendicitis Score (Samuel Score) .......... 18 3.4 Scoring Systems and the Use of Radiological Investigations .............................................................

Acne vulgaris remains one of the most common diseases afflicting humanity and it is the skin disease most commonly treated by physicians.[1] It is a disease of the pilosebaceous units, clinically characterized by seborrhea, comedones, papules, pustules, nodules and, in some cases, scarring.[2] Although easy to diagnose, the polymorphic nature of acne vulgaris and its varied extent of involvemen...

Illness severity scores have become widely used in neonatal intensive care. Primarily this has been to adjust the mortality observed in a particular hospital or population for the morbidity of their infants, and hence allow standardised comparisons to be performed. However, although risk correction has become relatively commonplace in relation to audit and research involving groups of infants, ...

When evaluating wordspotting systems, one normally compares receiver operating characteristic curves and different measures of accuracy. However, there are many other factors that are relevant to the system’s usability for searching speech. In this paper, we discuss both measures of quality for confidence scores and propose algorithms for producing scores that are optimal with respect to these ...

We evaluated the comparability of four commonly used shoulder scoring systems in the United States. Fifty-two patients had 53 shoulder stabilization procedures. Surgical procedures included 34 open Bankart-type repairs, 15 capsular shifts, and 4 arthroscopic stabilizations. Results were assessed using the following scales: 1) Rowe, 2) modified-Rowe, 3) University of California at Los Angeles, a...

Language recognition with support vector machines and shifteddelta cepstral features has been an excellent performer in NISTsponsored language evaluation for many years. A novel improvement of this method has been the introduction of hybrid SVM/GMM systems. These systems use GMM supervectors as an SVM expansion for classification. In prior work, methods for scoring SVM/GMM systems have been int...

abstract:             partial knowledge is one of the main factors to take into account when dealing with the improvement of administration of multiple choice questions (mcq). various strategies have been proposed for this factor in traditional testing environment. so this study proposed a confidence based assessment (cba) as a sufficient solution & want to compare the effect of cba scoring sys...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the reliability and agreement of semi-quantitative scoring (SQS) and quantitative scoring (QS) systems. To compare the two types of scoring system and investigate the construct validity for both scoring systems. METHODS A total of 46 RA patients (median disease duration of 6.5 years) were enrolled in the study. They were investigated with colour Doppler ultrasound using ...

INTRODUCTION Many scoring systems have been used for elbow disorders. However, only few of these have been validated, and many assess only few aspects of elbow function. METHODS A literature search was performed using the keyword 'elbow' in combination with 'scoring system', 'outcome assessment', 'elbow disorder' and 'clinical evaluation'. RESULTS Eighteen scoring systems are currently avai...