Claims
- 1. Memory storing a program for execution on a data processing system comprising:
- means for receiving signals representative of levels of a marker for disease from an individual;
- means for computing a risk of disease from one or more levels of a marker;
- means for comparing the computed risk to thresholds to triage the individual into one of normal, borderline and elevated risk groups; and
- means for storing the marker levels for subsequent computations of risk of disease.
- 2. Memory as claimed in claim 1 further comprising means for outputting a test interval value which is inversely related to the computed risk, to identify the interval at which an individual should again be test to determine the level of the marker to disease.
- 3. Memory as claimed in claim 2 wherein the risk of disease is again computed using a marker level obtained at the test interval.
- 4. Memory as claimed in claim 1 further comprising means for creating a bar graph display indicating the computed risk, the display being green when the risk is less than the normal threshold, the display being yellow when the risk is between the borderline thresholds, and the display being red when the risk is greater than the elevated threshold.
- 5. Memory as claimed in claim 1 wherein risk of disease is computed form a statistical analysis of marker level distributions for tested normal and diseased populations.
- 6. Memory as claimed in claim 5 wherein risk of disease is computed from multivariate distributions.
- 7. Memory as claimed in claim 6 wherein the marker level changes exponentially over time for diseased individuals and the multivariate distributions are determined from the slope and intercept of the log of detected marker levels over time for individuals within normal and diseased populations.
- 8. Memory as claimed in claim 7 wherein random draws are used to compute average densities from the normal and disease populations given the marker level for the individual.
- 9. Memory as claimed in claim 8 wherein risk of disease is computed as a product of an odds factor and an estimate of prior odds, wherein the odds factor is the ratio of the average density from the disease population to the average density from the normal population.
- 10. Memory as claimed in claim 8 wherein a time correlation component is included in a linear regression model of marker levels to compute risk of disease.
- 11. A computer comprising:
- an input device for receiving marker levels;
- a display for displaying risk of disease and courses of action, based upon the risk of disease; and
- memory comprising means for receiving signals representative of levels of a marker for disease; means for computing risk of disease from one or more levels of the marker; means for comparing the computed risk to thresholds to triage the individual into one of normal, borderline and elevated risk groups; and means for storing the marker levels for subsequent computations of risk of disease.
- 12. A computer system as claimed in claim 11, wherein the display is a bar graph display indicating the computed risk, the bar graph display being green when the risk is less than the normal threshold, the bar graph display being yellow when the risk is between the borderline thresholds, and the bar graph display being red when the risk is greater than the elevated threshold.
- 13. A computer system as claimed in claim 11 wherein the risk of disease is again computed using a marker level obtained at the test interval.
- 14. A computer system as claimed in claim 11 wherein risk of disease is computed from a statistical analysis of marker level distributions for tested normal and diseased populations.
- 15. A computer system as claimed in claim 14 wherein risk of disease is computed from multivariate distributions.
- 16. A computer system as claimed in claim 15 wherein the marker level changes exponentially over time for diseased individuals and the multivariate distributions are determined from the slope and intercept of the log of detected marker levels over time for individuals within normal and diseased populations.
- 17. A computer system as claimed in claim 16 wherein random draws are used to compute average densities from the normal and disease populations given the marker level for the individual.
- 18. A computer system as claimed in claim 17 wherein risk of disease is computed as a product of an odds factor and an estimate of prior odds, wherein the odds factor is the ratio of the average density from the disease population to the average density from the normal population.
- 19. A computer system as claimed in claim 17 wherein a time correlation component is included in a linear regression model of marker levels to compute risk of disease.
RELATED APPLICATION
This application is a Divisional of U.S. Ser. No.: 08/552,823, filed Nov. 3, 1995 and was U.S. Pat. No. 5,800,347 which claims priority to provisional application No. 60/003,601, filed Sep. 12, 1995, the entire teachings of which are incorporated herein by reference.
GOVERNMENT FUNDING
This invention was made with Government support under contract number CA 56793 awarded by the National Institutes of Health. The United States Government has certain rights to this invention.
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