Reliability in population dased medical screening

Outline:

Prevention methods for invasive diseases aimed at the general population (e.g. cancer screening programmes) are prone to high false positive rates due to the the low prevalence. At the same time, missing disease cases is adverse to the aim of saving and detecting lives through earlier detection. It is therefore crucial to insure maximal accuracy of the diagnostic processes involved. Statistical approaches analysing the diagnostic methods and their implementation in the screening process can detect areas where further progress can be made to minimise errors. This project is in collaboration with the Division of Health Sciences at the Warwick Medical School.