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Kelly H Zou¹, Ching-Ray Yu, Kezhen Liu

¹Pfizer Inc, 235 East 42nd Street, New York, NY 10017, USA. Kelly.Zou@pfizer.com

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Determining optimal thresholds for medical imaging requires careful consideration of various metrics and their clinical relevance. Researchers should compare multiple cutoff points to ensure robust diagnostic performance for improved patient outcomes.

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Area of Science:

Medical Imaging Analysis
Statistical Modeling
Diagnostic Accuracy

Background:

Optimal thresholds are crucial for dichotomizing measurement scales based on imaging features.
Current methods for threshold determination can be influenced by various factors, leading to variability.

Purpose of the Study:

To compare the performance of five different metrics for deriving optimal thresholds.
To investigate the impact of modeling assumptions, metrics, and data variability on threshold estimation.
To provide guidance on selecting clinically relevant optimal cutoff points.

Main Methods:

Utilized five metrics: Youden index, Euclidean distance, percent correct diagnosis, kappa statistic, and mutual information.
Employed parametric binormal assumptions for threshold estimation.
Conducted Monte Carlo simulations to compare metric performances.
Applied a radiological example of ureteral stones treatment outcomes for illustration.

Main Results:

Optimal threshold selection is sensitive to modeling assumptions, chosen metrics, and data variability.
Disease prevalence significantly affects the robustness of diagnostic metrics, even with large sample sizes.
Different metrics can yield varying optimal thresholds, highlighting the "moving target" nature of this parameter.

Conclusions:

Researchers should evaluate multiple optimal cutoff points using several metrics.
Selection of the most clinically relevant threshold is paramount.
The ultimate aim is to enhance diagnostic performance for meaningful clinical application and improved global health.