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“Cake causes herpes?” - promiscuous dichotomisation induces false positives [PDF]
Background Continuous biomedical data is often dichotomized into two or more groups for analysis, despite long-standing warnings from statisticians that this constitutes bad practice.
David Robert Grimes, James Heathers
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Solutions to Avoid False Positives for Rituximab in Pre-Transplant Crossmatches
Rituximab (anti-CD20) is commonly used as immunotherapy against B cells, in the context of pre-transplant crossmatches, where the presence of rituximab in the tested sera with donor cells can alter their results both by flow cytometry (FCXM) as ...
Marisa di Natale +2 more
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False-Positive Detection: Ways to Prevent Cross-Contamination [PDF]
The gold standard method for diagnosis of tuberculosis is the isolation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis through culture, but there is a probability of cross-contamination in simultaneous cultures of samples causing false-positives.
Mohammad Asgharzadeh +10 more
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Computer-Aided Detection False Positives in Colonoscopy
Randomized control trials and meta-analyses comparing colonoscopies with and without computer-aided detection (CADe) assistance showed significant increases in adenoma detection rates (ADRs) with CADe.
Yu-Hsi Hsieh +4 more
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Hydrophobicity identifies false positives and false negatives in peptide-MHC binding
Major Histocompability Complex (MHC) Class I molecules allow cells to present foreign and endogenous peptides to T-Cells so that cells infected by pathogens can be identified and killed. Neural networks tools such as NetMHC-4.0 and NetMHCpan-4.1 are used
Arnav Solanki +5 more
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False positives are common in single-station template matching
Template matching has become a cornerstone technique of observational seismology. By taking known events, and scanning them against a continuous record, new events smaller than the signal-to-noise ratio can be found, substantially improving the ...
Jack Muir +2 more
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Characteristics of False-Positive Alarms in the BacT/Alert 3D System
The BacT/Alert system has been used for detecting the presence of bacteria in various clinical settings as well as in blood services, but it is associated with a relatively high incidence of false-positive results.
Misato Amano +8 more
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Context-Sensitive Data Race Detection for Concurrent Programs
Data races have become one of the severe issues affecting the correctness of concurrent programs. Existing detection tools for data races have many false positives and false negatives.
Yang Zhang, Huan Liu, Liu Qiao
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Are you listening? – an observational wake word privacy study [PDF]
Purpose – Digital voice assistants use wake word engines (WWEs) to monitor surrounding audio for detection of the voice assistant's name. There are two failed conditions for a WWE, false negative and false positive.
Marcia Combs +2 more
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Women’s life suffered and killed by invasive cancerous tumors is the most frequently highlighted header in many newsletters since 2010. There can be many. By their nature, invasive tumors spread from tissue to tissue and abduct themselves to cause
L. Lakshmi +5 more
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