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Originally posted by wludavid
I'm on a watch list but haven't tried to get off it. I know why, and it's a real but stupid reason. Usually I just have to wait at the check-in counter for the agent to call in my info.

As for your software, do you have curves of percent-detected vs rate of false positives? In my line of work (minefield detection) I play with this stuff all day.
Yes we have all the comparative data but I think the record set needs to be expanded, which is what we're working on now. I think we're hitting a 5,000 patient record set (fabricated; not real name data) and I'd like to expand it to 500k.

Today an analyst ran some soundex on "Barack Obama" and one of the results was, "Bruce Owen"; among others. Importantly, Soundex doesn't rank the results--Bruce Owen is given as much weight as Barack Osama.

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