background : determining the validity of current median sensory nerve conduction techniques for diagnosis of carpal tunnel syndrome (cts). methods: eighty five patients with clinical diagnosis of cts were compared with the same number of healthy people. the validity of electrodiagnostic tests were compared in a case-control manner. these electrodiagnostictechniques included long-segment, short-...

background: the homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance (homa-ir) is a useful model for application at large epidemiologic studies. the aim of this study was to determine the homa cut off values to identify insulin resistance (ir) and metabolic syndrome (ms) in qazvin, central iran. methods: overall, 480 men and 502 women aged 20-72 yr attended in this cross sectional study from sept...

abstract background and aims: paper-pencil tests have always its own problems in the mental disorders evaluation, including learning questions, bad or good blazon are the problems with this methodology. this study aimed to propose a new alternative method of measuring mental disorders without paper-pencil test using eeg. methods: the research society involved depressed patients referred the psy...

Consider the ROC surface which is a generalization of the ROC curve for three−class diagnostic problems. In this work, we propose five criteria for the three−class ROC surface by extending the Youden index, the sum of sensitivity and specificity, the maximum vertical distance, the amended closest-to-(0,1) and the true rate. It may be concluded that these five criteria can be expressed as a func...

1 Graduate Institute of Oral Sciences, College of Oral Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC. 2 Graduate School of Dentistry, College of Oral Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC. 3 Department of Dentistry, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC. 4 Department of Dentistry, Wan-Fang Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC. ...

Centers for Disease Control, Department of Health, Taiwan, ROC Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taiwan, ROC Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taiwan, ROC Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital and...