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Mixtures of receiver operating characteristic curves.

AbstractRATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES:
Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves are ubiquitous in the analysis of imaging metrics as markers of both diagnosis and prognosis. While empirical estimation of ROC curves remains the most popular method, there are several reasons to consider smooth estimates based on a parametric model.
MATERIALS AND METHODS:
A mixture model is considered for modeling the distribution of the marker in the diseased population motivated by the biological observation that there is more heterogeneity in the diseased population than there is in the normal one. It is shown that this model results in an analytically tractable ROC curve which is itself a mixture of ROC curves.
RESULTS:
The use of creatine kinase-BB isoenzyme in diagnosis of severe head trauma is used as an example. ROC curves are fit using the direct binormal method, ROCKIT software, and the Box-Cox transformation as well as the proposed mixture model. The mixture model generates an ROC curve that is much closer to the empirical one than the other methods considered.
CONCLUSIONS:
Mixtures of ROC curves can be helpful in fitting smooth ROC curves in datasets where the diseased population has higher variability than can be explained by a single distribution.
AuthorsMithat Gönen
JournalAcademic radiology (Acad Radiol) Vol. 20 Issue 7 Pg. 831-7 (Jul 2013) ISSN: 1878-4046 [Electronic] United States
PMID23643788 (Publication Type: Journal Article)
CopyrightCopyright © 2013 AUR. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Chemical References
  • Biomarkers
  • Creatine Kinase, BB Form
Topics
  • Algorithms
  • Biomarkers (cerebrospinal fluid)
  • Craniocerebral Trauma (cerebrospinal fluid)
  • Creatine Kinase, BB Form (cerebrospinal fluid)
  • Data Interpretation, Statistical
  • Humans
  • Models, Statistical
  • Prognosis
  • ROC Curve
  • Software

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