Sentence examples for using a cutoff index from inspiring English sources

A previous study indicated that in patients admitted to ICU, including critically ill COPD patients, when using a cutoff index of 0.5, the sensitivity and specificity of BALF GM was 88% and 87%, respectively, while the sensitivity of serum GM was only 42% [ 28].

Significant continuous covariates in the first model were converted to dichotomous variables using a cutoff value determined by the Youden index created by a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve [ 24].

In order to retain only edges that represent significant potentially significant relationships, we used a cutoff of 0.5 on Jaccard indexes across the four networks (gene-based and the 3 feature-based networks).

Previous studies have considered a cutoff index higher than 0.5 for the BALF-GM assay.

Performance parameters such as sensitivity (Se), specificity (Sp), likelihood ratios (LR+, LR−), predictive values (PV+, PV−) and diagnostic odds ratio (DOR) were estimated for GM-EIA serology and facC-PCR by using the current cutoff index for the gold-standard GM-EIA (OD450/620≧0.5) and by considering a single positive PCR run as significant for facC-PCR.

In a previous epidemiologic survey, the prevalence of obesity in patients with diabetes was 33.5 % and 7.1 %, respectively, by using a body mass index cutoff of ≥25 and ≥30 kg/m [ 43].

In our series, the discriminative power of the proliferation (Ki-67) index diminished when using a higher cutoff level than 1% (data not shown).

All effects were significant when using a 90% cutoff in PRNTs at p<0.05 except urbanization index (UI) (p = 0.10).

Overlapping/redundant elements were removed from these datasets using an 80% similarity index as the cutoff value.

When using a more restrictive DNA index cutoff of 1 to define diploid tumours, these 11 cases had a poorer PFS compared with the 97 others.

Each of the six gene indices were searched against the predicted rice and Arabidopsis proteome using BLASTX and the top hit was picked for each entry of the gene indices using an E value cutoff of 10-5.