Estimation of the noisy component of anatomical backgrounds

Medical Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1365-1370

  Bochud, François O ^a   Valley, Jean François ^a   Verdun, Francis R ^a   Hessler, Christian ^a   Schnyder, Pierre ^a  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Anatomical background; Detection experiment; Image noise; Image quality; Observer model

Indexed keywords

DECISION THEORY; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; OBJECT DETECTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ALTERNATIVE FORCED CHOICE; ANATOMICAL BACKGROUND; ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES; DETECTION EXPERIMENTS; IMAGE NOISE; OBSERVER MODELS; PSYCHOPHYSICAL EXPERIMENTS; STATISTICAL DECISION THEORY;

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ARTICLE; CALCIFICATION; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NOISE POLLUTION; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORY;

EID: 0032783631     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598632     Document Type: Article

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