Why do anatomic backgrounds reduce lesion detectability?

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 203-208

  Eckstein, Miguel P ^a,b,c   Whiting, James S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Anatomic backgrounds; Image noise; Medical image perception; Visual detection

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SIGNAL DETECTION; VISION; X RAY ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031958459     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004424-199804000-00002     Document Type: Article

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