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- Title
Methods of determining optimal cut-point of diagnostic biomarkers with application of clinical data in ROC analysis: an update review.
- Authors
Hassanzad, Mojtaba; Hajian-Tilaki, Karimollah
- Abstract
Introduction: An important application of ROC analysis is the determination of the optimal cut-point for biomarkers in diagnostic studies. This comprehensive review provides a framework of cut-point election for biomarkers in diagnostic medicine. Methods: Several methods were proposed for the selection of optional cut-points. The validity and precision of the proposed methods were discussed and the clinical application of the methods was illustrated with a practical example of clinical diagnostic data of C-reactive protein (CRP), erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) and malondialdehyde (MDA) for prediction of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients using the NCSS software. Results: Our results in the clinical data suggested that for CRP and MDA, the calculated cut-points of the Youden index, Euclidean index, Product and Union index methods were consistent in predicting IBD patients, while for ESR, only the Euclidean and Product methods yielded similar estimates. However, the diagnostic odds ratio (DOR) method provided more extreme values for the optimal cut-point for all biomarkers analyzed. Conclusion: Overall, the four methods including the Youden index, Euclidean index, Product, and IU can produce quite similar optimal cut-points for binormal pairs with the same variance. The cut-point determined with the Youden index may not agree with the other three methods in the case of skewed distributions while DOR does not produce valid informative cut-points. Therefore, more extensive Monte Carlo simulation studies are needed to investigate the conditions of test result distributions that may lead to inconsistent findings in clinical diagnostics.
- Subjects
INFLAMMATORY bowel diseases; MONTE Carlo method; BLOOD sedimentation; CLINICAL medicine; DATA analysis
- Publication
BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2024, Vol 24, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1471-2288
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1186/s12874-024-02198-2