Sažetak There are several criteria for determination of the most appropriate cut-off value in a
diagnostic test with continuous results. Mostly based on receiver operating characteristic …

Context. Pain has significant socioeconomic, health, and quality-of-life implications. Racial-
and ethnic-based differences in the pain care experience have been described. Racial and …

Machine learning (ML) is increasingly being used in image retrieval systems for medical
decision making. One application of ML is to retrieve visually similar medical images from …

Decision curve analysis (DCA) is a method for evaluating the benefits of a diagnostic test
across a range of patient preferences for accepting risk of undertreatment and overtreatment …

Change is ubiquitous in health care, making continuous adaptation necessary for clinicians
to provide the best possible care to their patients. The authors propose that developing the …

The rough set theory approximates a concept by three regions, namely, the positive,
boundary and negative regions. Rules constructed from the three regions are associated …

This book was written to summarize and describe the state of the art of statistical methods
developed to address questions of estimation and inference for dynamic treatment regimes …

Many of the complex problems faced by decision makers involve multiple conflicting
objectives. This book describes how a confused decision maker, who wishes to make a …

The third volume in the Handbooks in Health Economic Evaluation series, this book
provides the reader with a comprehensive set of instructions and examples of how to …

Prospect Theory: For Risk and Ambiguity, provides a comprehensive and accessible
textbook treatment of the way decisions are made both when we have the statistical …