Sentence examples for mediocre sensitivity from inspiring English sources
The detection of serum PSA has increased early diagnosis of prostate cancer but has suffered from mediocre sensitivity and specificity because other conditions, such as prostatitis (inflammation of the prostate) and benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH; enlarged prostate), can raise the level of PSA beyond the current 4 ng/ml cutoff that is thought to indicate cancer.
As an independent prognostic marker NT-proBNP achieved a mediocre optimal sensitivity and specificity of 58% with a cut-off value of 834 ng/l.
Current influenza rapid tests for NP generally exhibit mediocre (10 70%) sensitivity and would dramatically benefit from the increased sophistication enabled by 2DPN devices.
It is also possible (and commonly observed in practice) that sites, the biological importance of which has been defined by independent functional assays, can decrease to below the sensitivity threshold of a poor or mediocre ChIP-seq experiment.
However, if we apply the same feature selection approach to the Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) data, the classifier only attains a mediocre performance with an average diagnostic accuracy 88.03 % (sensitivity: 84.76 %, specificity: 91.08 %), which is far from the more than 94 %-level diagnostic accuracy achieved by the same classifier without using any feature selection.
The authors handle O'Hara's relationship with her deaf son and her Indian patient with touching sensitivity, but the novel never rises above the mediocre.
The measurement problem is a difficult one, and deficiencies in measurement, whether due to poor sensitivity or bias, may be a contributor to the mediocre results often observed in previous programs.
"Was it something mediocre?
That means mediocre math.
