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The effect of abnormal cell proportion on specimen classifier performance.

K R Castleman·B S White
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In two previous papers we developed formulas relating the performance (error rates) of a two-class specimen classifier to the performance of a preceding two-class classifier and the number of cells examined (K. R. Castleman and B. S. White, Analytical and Quantitative Cytology 2:117, 1980 and K. R. Castleman and B. S. White, Cytometry 1:156, 1980.). This analysis assumed a certain proportion (p) of abnormal cells on an abnormal specimen. In this paper we examine what happens when a system designed assuming one value of p is presented with a positive specimen having a different abnormal cell proportion. We show that the specimen false negative error rate increases dramatically as p decreases below the design value, and conversely. This suggests that the specimen classification performance of a particular system should be quoted only with reference to the abnormal cell proportion of the specimens used for testing.

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Cell SeparationCytodiagnosisFalse Negative ReactionsFlow CytometryMathematicsProbabilityJournal ArticleResearch Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

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K R Castleman, B S White. 1981. The effect of abnormal cell proportion on specimen classifier performance.. https://doi.org/10.1002/cyto.990020304

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