The Department of Physiology, 303 E Superior St., Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.
Acad Radiol. 2013 Jul;20(7):908-14. doi: 10.1016/j.acra.2013.04.002.
Traditional two-class receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis is inadequate for the complete evaluation of observer performance in tasks with more than two classes.
Here, a Monte Carlo estimation method for operating point coordinates on a three-class ROC surface is developed and compared with analytically calculated coordinates in two special cases: (1) univariate and (2) restricted bivariate trinormal underlying data.
In both cases, the statistical estimates were found to be good in the sense that the analytical values lay within the 95% confidence interval of the estimated values about 95% of the time.
The statistical estimation method should be key in the development of a pragmatic performance metric for evaluation of observers in classification tasks with three or more classes.
传统的两类接收器操作特征(ROC)分析对于评估具有两个以上类别的任务中的观察者性能是不够的。
本文开发了一种用于三维 ROC 表面上操作点坐标的蒙特卡罗估计方法,并在两个特殊情况下与分析计算的坐标进行了比较:(1)单变量和(2)受限双变量三正态基础数据。
在这两种情况下,统计估计都被发现是良好的,因为分析值大约有 95%的时间落在估计值的 95%置信区间内。
对于具有三个或更多类别的分类任务中观察者性能的评估,统计估计方法应该是一种实用的性能指标的关键。