Sentence examples for optimised sensitivity from inspiring English sources

There is general agreement that serum cotinine is ideal for measuring smoking status because of its long half life (9 hours in pregnant women) 29 and the procedure's optimised sensitivity (94%) and specificity (81%).

A Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) analysis, with index scores as the predictor and professional help seeking status as the outcome, suggested that a cut-off point > 1 on the index optimised sensitivity (68%) and specificity (71%); with an area under the curve (AUC) of 0.74 (99% CI 0.70 to 0.78).

The running parameters were optimised for sensitivity and specificity.

The instrument was optimised for sensitivity and low oxides.

The PCR protocol for the detection of XMRV and MCV was initially optimised for sensitivity and specificity by using plasmids containing XMRV or MCV sequences serially diluted (10-fold) in 200 ng of DNA from BE(2 -M17 cell line (human neuroblastoma cell line, kind gift of Professor Omar El-Agnaf, United Arab Emirates University, UAE).

The UVS class is optimised for ultraviolet sensitivity, but the VS class also has some degree of sensitivity in the ultraviolet spectrum.

Detector design and microfabrication technologies have been optimised for detection sensitivity, providing an efficient direct electrical measurement of DNA hybridisation.

After the algorithm structure has been statistically optimised, the network sensitivity to input variations has been evaluated on simulated signals through a technique inspired by information gap theory.

RNA isolation methods were optimised for high sensitivity, using only 3 μg of total RNA that were reverse transcribed using random hexamers, with the resulting cDNA hybridised after labelling to an oligonucleotide array.

In secondary analyses, we evaluated (1) anti-EBNA1 IgA (OD405⩾0.20) with an alternative cut-off used for studies of sporadic NPC, (2) anti-VCA IgA based on the cut-off of 1 : 10 or greater dilution of serum, and (3) DNase neutralising activity, based on a cut-off optimised for high sensitivity in our family study (positivity cut-off=160 or more neutralising units; Yu et al, 2011).

This was optimised to maximise both sensitivity and specificity, but can be adapted to the clinical scenario e.g. whether maximal sensitivity or specificity is the most important outcome.