Value of Diagnostic Imaging: Information from Images addresses the concepts needed to answer questions on topics of value, such as how much to pay for diagnostic testing, how many tests are too many, do they cause harm, and whether or not patients need an MRI before a laboratory test. The book helps readers recognize when one diagnostic test is better than the other and when more information does not help. It provides an essential resource for radiologists, diagnostic pathologists, and health policy researchers involved in medical decision modeling, evidence-based medicine, precision medicine, public health and health economics.
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1. Logic of medical decision making
2. An introduction to Bayesian analysis
3. Receiver Operating Characteristic curve
4. Sensitivity and specificity of a diagnostic test
5. Threshold basis of decision making
6. Multiple tests
7. Decision rules
8. Outcomes and quality-adjusted life years
9. Overview of health economics
10. Derived demand and bundled payment
11. Clinical trials and imaging
12. Screening
13. Value of information
14. Decision modeling
15. Uncertainty
16. Introduction to behavioral economics
17. Imaging and zero events
18. Overdiagnosis
19. Precision medicine and imaging
20. Machine learning
21. Integrating imaging and pathology
22. Which is the better test?
23. Growth of cardiac CT and cardiac MR
24. Statistics of radiologists
25. Controversies in imaging
2. An introduction to Bayesian analysis
3. Receiver Operating Characteristic curve
4. Sensitivity and specificity of a diagnostic test
5. Threshold basis of decision making
6. Multiple tests
7. Decision rules
8. Outcomes and quality-adjusted life years
9. Overview of health economics
10. Derived demand and bundled payment
11. Clinical trials and imaging
12. Screening
13. Value of information
14. Decision modeling
15. Uncertainty
16. Introduction to behavioral economics
17. Imaging and zero events
18. Overdiagnosis
19. Precision medicine and imaging
20. Machine learning
21. Integrating imaging and pathology
22. Which is the better test?
23. Growth of cardiac CT and cardiac MR
24. Statistics of radiologists
25. Controversies in imaging
