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Using the 53 pg/ml threshold the specificity of this marker was excellent with no false positives in NSCLC.
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The sensitivity of a model at a threshold was defined as the percentage of species occurrences that were correctly predicted by the model at the threshold, while the specificity of the model at a threshold was defined as the percentage of correctly predicted species absences at the threshold [11].
At the same time, raising the threshold will increase the specificity of the test to virtually 100%.
Setting the threshold at 2000 increases the specificity of the test and in our cohort would not have reported any DSA in the graft survival group, while still identifying DSA in four patients in the early graft-loss group.
This parasite threshold was set to increase the specificity of the endpoint since asymptomatic parasiteamias are common among children in this endemic area [24].
A range of percentiles of the resulting distribution were used to define thresholds for identifying abnormal animals and the specificity of a classification scheme based on these thresholds (essentially the proportion of animals below the threshold) was assessed.
In the following, b a is in fact set to 0. The activation function in equation (1) expresses thresholds conditioned, for example, by the specificity of the sequence or the concentration of the regulator, which may be more realistic than the binary binding or not-binding of a transcription factor to specific DNA sequences [ 23, 29].
Here, neighboring subunits show less than 40% sequence identity, experimentally shown to be the threshold of aggregation compatibility [201], highlighting the specificity of protein aggregation [202 204].
If an adrenal mass measures 0 HU or less (threshold attenuation value of 0 HU), the specificity of the mass being an adenoma is 100% but the sensitivity is only an unacceptable 47%.
Inclusion of individuals with autoimmune diabetes and GCK-MODY reduces the specificity of the hs-CRP threshold of 0.4 mg/l to 63%.
A more meaningful way to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy in such cases is to calculate the partial area under the curve (PAUC) i.e. the AUC over a selected range of threshold values that covers the specificities of clinical interest [ 75, 76].
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