Title
Applying a statistical PTB detection procedure to complement the gold standard
Abstract
This paper investigates a novel statistical discrimination procedure to detect PTB when the gold standard requirement is taken into consideration. Archived data were used to establish two groups of patients which are the control and test group. The control group was used to develop the statistical discrimination procedure using four vectors of wavelet coefficients as feature vectors for the detection of pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB), lung cancer (LC), and normal lung (NL). This discrimination procedure was investigated using the test group where the number of sputum positive and sputum negative cases that were correctly classified as PTB cases were noted. The proposed statistical discrimination method is able to detect PTB patients and LC with high true positive fraction. The method is also able to detect PTB patients that are sputum negative and therefore may be used as a complement to the gold standard.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1016/j.compmedimag.2010.10.002
Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Digital chest radiographs,Statistical graphical method,Discrimination,Gold standard,Pulmonary tuberculosis and lung cancer
Journal
35
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3
0895-6111
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
6
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Norliza Mohd. Noor1379.25
Ashari Yunus2303.68
S. A. R. Abu-Bakar3799.67
Amran Hussin420.71
M. Omar5427.77