OBJECTIVES: This paper demonstrates that diagnostic test performance can be quantified as the average amount of information the test result (R) provides about the disease state (D). METHODS: A fundamental concept of information theory, mutual information, is directly applicable to this problem...
Keywords: Diagnostic tests, Entropy, information theory, ROC curve
01/2003 | Methods of Information in Medicine, SchattauerOBJECTIVES: Multineuronal spike trains must be efficiently decoded in order to utilize them for controlling artificial limbs and organs...
Keywords: information theory, correlation, spike sorting, vision, prosthesis
01/2007 | Methods of Information in Medicine, Schattauer