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  • Medical Diagnostics
  • Biostatistics
  • Ordinal Classification

Background:

  • Many diseases present with three distinct stages, impacting treatment effectiveness.
  • Accurate discrimination between these stages is crucial for patient management.
  • Existing methods for selecting diagnostic thresholds in three-class settings are limited.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose two new criteria for selecting clinically meaningful diagnostic thresholds for three-class ordinal disease settings.
  • To evaluate the performance of these new criteria compared to existing methods.

Main Methods:

  • Development of two novel criteria for threshold selection in three-class diagnostic tests.
  • Numerical simulations to assess threshold variability and classification rate balance.
  • Application of the proposed methods to real-world datasets for Alzheimer's disease and liver cancer detection.

Main Results:

  • The proposed methods demonstrated reduced threshold variability.
  • The new criteria provided a more balanced classification rate across the three disease stages.
  • Successful application to Alzheimer's disease and liver cancer diagnostic data.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed criteria offer an improved approach for selecting diagnostic thresholds in three-class ordinal disease settings.
  • These methods enhance the clinical utility of diagnostic tests by providing more balanced and reliable stage classification.
  • The findings have implications for the accurate diagnosis and management of diseases like Alzheimer's and liver cancer.