We evaluated the most common indices to compare their sensitivity and specificity to introduce the most sensitive and specific index. We systematically searched five international indexing databases up to Dec 2018. For each index, we measured the diagnostic odds ratio (DOR), as well as summary ROC (SROC) curve which was used to compare the performance of each index. Deeks̕ tests of all discrimin...

The Haralick texture features are a well-known mathematical method to detect the lung abnormalities and give the opportunity to the physician to localize the abnormality tissue type, either lung tumor or pulmonary edema. In this paper, statistical evaluation of the different features will represent the reported performance of the proposed method. Thirty-seven patients CT datasets with either lu...

A method for the linear discrimination of non parametric binary classification is presented. It searches for the discriminate direction which maximizes the generalized Patrick-Fischer distance between the projected classconditional densities. The theoretical background is introduced with a new estimator using orthogonal function according to the Patrick-Fischer distance that gives the best scal...

A major goal of seafloor habitat mapping is to provide techniques that predict the distribution of species from physical and biotic parameters that define where species live. An area of seafloor comprising of rocky reef and sand habitats was surveyed with both a single beam acoustic ground discrimination system (AGDS) and sidescan sonar. Comparisons are made between predicted classes assessed f...