How To Apply Case Series Review Results To Evaluation Of Individual Cases In Diagnostic Radiology

J. R. Thornbury; D. G. Fryback; L. R. Kuhns

doi:10.1117/12.957166

6 July 1979 How To Apply Case Series Review Results To Evaluation Of Individual Cases In Diagnostic Radiology

J. R. Thornbury, D. G. Fryback, L. R. Kuhns

Proceedings Volume 0173, Application of Optical Instrumentation in Medicine VII; (1979) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.957166
Event: Application of Optical Instrumentation in Medicine VII, 1979, Toronto, Canada

Abstract

Probability theory provides a simple method for physicians to use their "intellectual linkages" to their past clinical experience in making current diagnoses. Only a pencil and paper are required for making a few likelihood calculations. To illustrate this method, evaluation was done of a new diagnostic sign (presence of knee ossification centers) for differentiating rubella from cytomegalic inclusion infection in young infants. Two practical questions can be answered by use of this likelihood method: 1) How certain can one be about either diagnosis when centers are present or absent? 2) How can other radiologists apply these results to their individual cases?

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J. R. Thornbury, D. G. Fryback, and L. R. Kuhns "How To Apply Case Series Review Results To Evaluation Of Individual Cases In Diagnostic Radiology", Proc. SPIE 0173, Application of Optical Instrumentation in Medicine VII, (6 July 1979); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.957166

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