Which is more important when working with healthcare AI detection: that it never misses something on a patient scan, or that it never identifies something that isn’t there? In other words, which ...

Researchers said the blood test offers an earlier warning of hepatocellular carcinoma than current methods. Recent research highlights the increased sensitivity and specificity of a blood test to ...

Effects of common nutraceutical supplements marketed for cancer prevention on tumor cell growth.

A novel PET perfusion radiotracer, 18 F-flurpiridaz, can diagnose coronary artery disease (CAD) in obese patients with a higher sensitivity and specificity compared to 99m Tc-SPECT myocardial ...

Chance agreement may account for a sizeable proportion of the specificity of a screening test when the disease prevalence is low. Conversely, the observed sensitivity may be largely accounted for by ...

WASHINGTON -- A blood-based test for the early detection of colorectal cancer (CRC) met its prespecified sensitivity and specificity endpoints, according to results from the PREEMPT CRC study. Using ...

Quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) is a molecular technique that has reshaped the landscape of biological research and medicine due to its high sensitivity and specificity. qPCR, also known ...