Improve detection accuracy: Real-time calibration and simulations on large volumes of data minimize false positives.
The New York Times article glosses over this second, crucial issue of potential false positives.
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The results have only indicated false negatives, not false positives, according to Chief Medical Examiner spokeswoman Ellen Borakove.
Privacy advocates in Ireland are equally concerned over false positives and the potential for abuse of the stored data.
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They careened from providing a false negative to generating hundreds of false positives.
The ideal predictive test would have 0% false positives and 0% false negatives.
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The other crucial part is you want as few false positives as possible.
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But initial tests often yield false positives, and the former official was unaware whether more definitive tests had been concluded.
But such tests often yield false positives, and the former official was unaware whether more definitive test results had been obtained.
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In our own tests at Consumer Reports, we found that the recommended kits showed no false positives and no false negatives.
Tim Callan, a vice president for the company's security division, says that false positives have to be factored into the equation.
Prof Evans disputes Prof Gotzsche's assessment of the proportion of "false positives".
Not testing at all eliminates false negatives as well as false positives.
The potential for false positives, needless surgery and untold anxiety is enormous.
In fact, given the incidence of false positives, and of cancers that do not actually need to be treated, such screenings can cause harm.
Just cutting down on the false positives won't be enough, says John Jack, a software industry veteran hired last year as Fortify's chief executive.
He found that although both groups were about the same at finding true matches, the professionals were significantly less likely to find false positives.
The ratio of true positives to false positives and false negatives?
Rather than once a year, women are now encouraged to get these exams less frequently to avoid false positives, potentially risky biopsies and undue anxiety.
Preliminary field tests can often show false positives for ricin.
"There are so many unneeded biopsies and so much unneeded testing because of false positives, " said Hall, who has studied the issue and who has a master's in kinesiology.
However, signatures that are written to be general purpose and block based on a category of potential exploits against known vulnerabilities can cause false positives and thus block legitimate connections.
Free versions of security audit software exist, but they tend to find so many false positives, or problems that turn out to be nothing, that developers stop using these tools.
Like Viking, Curiosity started off with some false positives.
While IPS vendors strive to reduce these false positives and increase the effectiveness of their signature bases they are also beginning to borrow from the success other solutions have had with reputation.
In a shop, where the scanner sits by the till and is supervised by a clerk, a thief could not make repeated payment attempts without raising suspicion, so false positives are unlikely.
Critics said the prospect of a no-hands T-Ray search raised general privacy concerns and fears over so-called false positives where an object on a person's body could be misread to be a weapon.
False positives on steroid tests are not unheard of, which is why cycling officials insist that any positive be confirmed by a second test by a lab approved by the World Anti-Doping Agency.
Because some legal substances -- such as fertilizers and heart medicines -- can result in "false positives, " Stanley said the ACLU also wants to ensure that people who test positive be treated respectfully.
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