BACKGROUND The study was conducted to investigate the diagnostic performance of infrared (IR) imaging of the breast using an interpretive model derived from a scoring system. METHODS The study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of our hospital. A total of 276 women (mean age = 50.8 years, SD 11.8) with suspicious findings on mammograms or ultrasound received IR imaging of the brea...

Sensitivity and specificity are two components that measure the inherent validity of a diagnostic test for dichotomous outcomes against a gold standard. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve is the plot that depicts the trade-off between the sensitivity and (1-specificity) across a series of cut-off points when the diagnostic test is continuous or on ordinal scale (minimum 5 categories)...

The receiver operating characteristics (ROC) curve is a standard statistical tool to characterize the accuracy of diagnostic tests when test results are continuous. It provides a complete description of test performance and a meaningful way to compare the performances of different tests. The empirical (nonparametric) ROC curve is the most popular estimator of the ROC curve. Semiparametric estim...

1-type and biharmonic curves by using laplace operator in lorentzian 3-space arestudied and some theorems and characterizations are given for these curves.

3-D curve moments and curve moment invariants under similarity transformation are defined in this paper. 3-D curve moment invariants can be used as shape descriptors for the representation of parametric curves. We use them to describe some commonly used parametric curves and test the invariance of them in the experiment.

In this paper, we present algorithms for implementation of the GHS attack to Elliptic curve cryptosystems (ECC). In particular, we consider two large classes of elliptic curves over cubic extension fields of odd characteristics which have weak covering curves against GHS attack, whose existence have been shown recently [16][17][18]. We show an algorithm to find definition equation of the coveri...

foot and mouth disease (fmd) is the most contagious disease of cloven-hoofed animals, causingsignificant economical losses in livestock animals. in this study fmd virus type a87/irn was cultured andmultiplied on bhk21 cells. the fmd virus was titrated by the tissue culture infection dose50 method(tcid50 /ml), the virus titration was 107.5.. the fmd virus samples were irradiated and inactivated ...