Fast robust automated brain extraction. by Smith, S

“…We describe the new method and give examples of results and the results of extensive quantitative testing against "gold-standard" hand segmentations, and two other popular automated methods.…”

Evaluation of the Standard Diagnostics Leptospira IgM ELISA for diagnosis of acute leptospirosis in Lao PDR by Tanganuchitcharnchai, A, Smythe, L, Dohnt, M, Hartskeerl, R, Vongsouvath, M, Davong, V, Lattana, O, Newton, P, Blacksell, S

“…Leptospira microscopic agglutination test, which is the serological gold standard. However, re-evaluation of the diagnostic cut-off to an OD of 1.7 demonstrated improved diagnostic accuracy overall (sensitivity 70%; specificity 78%). © 2012 Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.…”

Articular ultrasonography in rheumatoid arthritis by Seymour, M, Taylor, P

“…MRI is considered the new gold standard for the detection of joint inflammation and bone erosions but is invasive, costly and has limited availability. …”

On not evaluating economic models by forecast outcomes by Castle, J, Hendry, D

“…We conclude that judging a model by the accuracy of its forecasts is more like fools' gold than a gold standard. </p> …”

Recent advances in cardiovascular magnetic resonance: techniques and applications by Salerno, M, Sharif, B, Arheden, H, Kumar, A, Axel, L, Li, D, Neubauer, S

“…Cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging has become the gold standard for evaluating myocardial function, volumes, and scarring. …”

Melioidosis in Malaysia by Puthucheary, Savithri Devi

“…Isolation of B. pseudomallei from bodily fluids of patients remains the "gold standard" in diagnosis but a sensitive and specific serological test can lend support to the diagnosis of melioidosis. …”

An extensive cervical vagal nerve schwannoma: A case report by Chai, Chiun Kian, Tang, Ing Ping, Prepageran, Narayanan, Jayalakshmi, Pailoor

“…Magnetic resonance imaging is the gold standard investigation to establish a pre-operative diagnosis. …”
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Algorithm for Turning Detection and Analysis Validated under Home-Like Conditions in Patients with Parkinson?s Disease and Older Adults using a 6 Degree-of-Freedom Inertial Measure... by Pham, Minh H., Elshehabi, Morad, Haertner, Linda, Heger, Tanja, Hobert, Markus A., Faber, Gert S., Salkovic, Dina, Ferreira, Joaquim J., Berg, Daniela, Maetzler, Walter, van Dieen, Jaap H., Sanchez Ferro, Alvaro

“…Turning magnitude (difference, 0.06°; SEM, 0.14°) and duration (difference, 0.004 s; SEM, 0.005 s) yielded high correlation values with gold standard. Overall accuracy for direction of turning was 0.995. …”
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Drug eluting prosthetic joints through drug cluster morphology control by Suhardi, Vincentius Jeremy

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Pipeline for semi-automatic segmentation of confluent endothelial cell membranes by Ibarra, Sabrina Elizabeth.

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Prevalence, risk factors, and infection intensity of fasciolosis in dairy cattle in Boyolali, Indonesia by Kurnianto, Heri, Ramanoon, Siti Zubaidah, Aziz, Nor Azlina Abdul, Indarjulianto, Soedarmanto

“…The relative sensitivity and specificity of the Flukefinder® kit compared with those of the gold standard were 79.49% and 92.52%, respectively, with a moderate agreement (kappa=0.59; p < 0.001). …”
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Evaluation of the diagnostic accuracy and cost of different methods for the assessment of severe anaemia in hospitalised children in Eastern Uganda by Olupot-Olupot, P, Prevatt, N, Engoru, C, Nteziyaremye, J, Amorut, D, Chebet, M, Senyondo, T, Ongodia, P, Ndila, CM, Williams, TN, Maitland, K

“…Haemoglobin levels were measured using the HemoCue ® Hb 301 system (gold standard); the Haemoglobin Colour Scale; Colorimetric and Sahli’s methods. …”

Polyethyleneimine as an adjuvant candidate for Env-based HIV-1 immunisation by Brinckmann, S

“…PEI is particularly potent via the mucosal route and superior to gold standard mucosal adjuvant Cholera Toxin Beta subunit (CTB) as measured by HIV-1 specific IgA responses at the mucosal compartment. …”

A rare occurrence of a metastatic urothelial carcinoma to the thoracic vertebra: A case report by Soe, May Zaw, Bong, Chin Pei, Shankaran Thevarajah, Teah, Kai Ming, Yeap, Boon Tat

“…Intraoperative usage of targeted controlled infusion (TCI) of remifentanil and propofol as maintenance of anaesthesia are gold standard in assisting spine surgeons who are guided by neuromuscular monitoring. …”
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Empirical evidence-based policy for Islamic psycho-spiritual intervention: using electroencephalography for post-traumatic stress disorder by Hassan, Siti Aishah, Zakaria, Noor Syamilah, Ahmad, Nor Aniza

“…Providing empirical evidence in an experimental study with randomized control trials design has been considered as a gold standard among the scientific community. Islamic psycho-spiritual study is currently categorized as pseudo-science; hence deserve a more scientific approach to substantiate its proposition. …”
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Development of recombinase polymerase amplification assay for the detection of mycobacterium tuberculosis by Salleh, Nur Eyuni Mohd

“…The clinical performance of the RPA was evaluated using 387 sputum samples with the culture method as the gold standard. RPA and microscopy were compared to the gold standard in terms of sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value, false positive value and false negative value. …”
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Signal quality measures for pulse oximetry through waveform morphology analysis by Sukor, J. Abdul, Redmond, S. J., Lovell, N. H.

“…The performance of the proposed algorithm is compared to a manually annotated gold standard. The creation of the gold standard involved two experts identifying sections of the PPG signal containing good quality PPG pulses and/or noise, in 104 fingertip PPG signals, using a simultaneous electrocardiograph (ECG) signal as a reference signal. …”
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Automated de-identification of free-text medical records by Neamatullah, Ishna, Douglass, Margaret M., Long, William J., Szolovits, Peter, Moody, George B., Clifford, Gari D., Reisner, Andrew T., Lehman, Li-Wei, Villarroel, Mauricio C., Mark, Roger G

“…To develop the de-identification approach, we assembled a gold standard corpus of re-identified nursing notes with real PHI replaced by realistic surrogate information. …”
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Akurasi Skor Sigtuna Untuk Mendiagnosis Asfiksia Neonatorum by Perpustakaan UGM, i-lib

“…Sigtuna score was performed by trained doctors at five minutes in the delivery room. pH was used as gold standard to diagnose asphyxia. The classification of asphyxia according to blood gas analysis was: no asphyxia (pH 3 7,105), mild asphyxia (pH 7,003 -…”

Using diffusion imaging to study human connectional anatomy. by Johansen-Berg, H, Rushworth, M

“…We discuss the degree to which diffusion tractography meets the requirements of a technique to assess structural connectivity and how its results compare to those from the gold-standard tract tracing methods in nonhuman animals. …”