METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR EVALUATING DEVELOPMENTAL CONDITIONS AND PROVIDING CONTROL OVER COVERAGE AND RELIABILITY

• Main Authors: LAJONCHERE CLARA, VAUGHAN BRENT, WALL DENNIS, ABBAS ABDELHALIM, GARBERSON JEFFREY FORD
• Format: Patent
• Language: Chinese; English
• Published: 30.08.2019
• Subjects: HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS, i.e. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONTECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE HANDLING ORPROCESSING OF MEDICAL OR HEALTHCARE DATA; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTEDFOR SPECIFIC APPLICATION FIELDS; PHYSICS

The methods and apparatus disclosed herein can evaluate a subject for a developmental condition or conditions and provide improved sensitivity and specificity for categorical determinations indicatingthe presence or absence of the developmental condition by isolating hard-to-screen cases as inconclusive. The methods and apparatus disclosed herein can be configured to be tunable to control the tradeoff between coverage and reliability and to adapt to different application settings and can further be specialized to handle different population groups. 本文公开的方法和装置可以评估受试者的发育状况，并通过将难以筛查的病例隔离为不确定性来提供指示发育状况的存在或不存在的分类性确定的改善的灵敏度和特异性。本文公开的方法和装置可被配置成可调节的，以控制覆盖度与可靠性之间的权衡，并适应不同的应用环境，并且还可以专用于处理不同的群体组。