Diagnostic information; Diagnostic test performance; Informational diagnostic channels; Inter-rater agreement; Quality measures; Shannon information theory

Fifty years of Shannon information theory in assessing the accuracy and agreement of diagnostic tests

Fifty years of Shannon information theory in assessing the accuracy and agreement of diagnostic tests

Since 1948, Shannon theoretic methods for modeling information have found a wide range of applications in several areas where information plays a key role, which goes well beyond the original scopes for which they have been conceived, namely data …