Sentence examples for a specificity for detecting from inspiring English sources

Detection of any level of aberrant methylation (PMR>0) resulted in a specificity for detecting breast cancer of 95% for APC, 100% for RASSF1A and 89.5% for ESR1.

Binary data analyses of the same data set revealed that the transformation assay and rodent bioassay had a concordance of 71%, a sensitivity for carcinogens of 80.0%, and a specificity for detecting noncarcinogens of 60%.

However IP-10-based tests, especially those based on QFT Antigen, show a lower specificity for detecting active TB.

While our simple algorithm for flagging months with significant excess mortality appears to have a high specificity for detecting periods of influenza activity, not all significant epidemics were identified by the algorithm.

Moreover, there was a significantly higher proportion of responders to IP-10 than to QFT-IT in those without active TB, leading to a low specificity for detecting active disease.

Actigraphy has a high specificity for detecting whether the patient is asleep or awake but cannot differentiate between sleep stages and score REM sleep.

This UV spectrophotometry-based technique is cheap and has a 100% sensitivity and a 98.5% specificity for detecting carbapenemase activity [ 80].

Previous studies indicated that PET-CT has a low sensitivity and a relatively high specificity for detecting thoracic lymph node metastases.

In this series, T2W-MRI had a very high sensitivity for detecting myometrial invasion and a very high specificity for detecting both superficial and stromal cervical invasion.

In our meta-analysis soon appearing in Radiology, which included 436 patients and 9,541 arterial segments, a pooled sensitivity and specificity for detecting a >50% stenosis of 92% and 93% was estimated, respectively.

They found a sensitivity and specificity for detecting PCa of 75.4% and 76.6%, respectively.