Sentence examples for decreasing specificity from inspiring English sources

Given the danger of misidentifying a cancer patient (which could lead to death), tests are generally designed to ensure a high sensitivity by decreasing specificity (i.e. increasing false positives to ensure that as many positives are identified).

By applying MTV-corrected cutoff values of T/N ratio (1.23), diagnostic performance could be maintained without decreasing specificity in small-sized lesions (Table 2).

Finally, MTV-corrected cutoff values of the T/N ratio can improve diagnostic performance of 11C-MET PET/CT without decreasing specificity especially in small lesions.

Thus, NEP transcription initiation may avert detrimental effects of point mutations by decreasing specificity.

As expected, the mismatches decreased the microarray signal by decreasing specificity of hybridization.

kWalks alone is able to return general subgraphs but possibly at the cost of decreasing specificity.

If threshold effect is present, the forest plots will show increasing sensitivities with decreasing specificities, or vice versa.

Of course, this comes at the cost of a decreased specificity and has to be decided application specific.

Double reading generally increased sensitivity at the cost of decreased specificity.

In the bat fly – bat system, numerous properties interrupt the linkage of parasite to host and should decrease specificity.

In the limit of an infinite training pool, maximizing Youden's index will place the classification threshold at a point where any shift to the left will increase sensitivity less than it will decrease specificity.