Maximum-likelihood and maximum-a-posteriori estimates of human-observer templates

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4324, Issue , 2001, Pages 114-122

  Abbey, C K ^a   Eckstein, M P ^a  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Forced choice detection; Maximum Likelihood estimation; Model observer; Visual signal detection

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

CLASSIFICATION IMAGES; FORCED CHOICE DETECTION; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI METHOD; VISUAL SIGNAL DETECTION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0034867086     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.431179     Document Type: Conference Paper

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