Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) Curve Analysis for Medical Diagnostic Test Evaluation

• Published in: Caspian journal of internal medicine Vol. 4; no. 2; pp. 627 - 635
• Main Author: Hajian-Tilaki, Karimollah
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Iran Babol University of Medical Sciences 01.01.2013
• Subjects: Review; Nonparametric; Sensitivity; Specificity; Area under the curve (AUC); Bias; Parametric; ROC curve

This review provides the basic principle and rational for ROC analysis of rating and continuous diagnostic test results versus a gold standard. Derived indexes of accuracy, in particular area under the curve (AUC) has a meaningful interpretation for disease classification from healthy subjects. The...