Lesion detectability in digital radiography

Proceedings of SPIE- The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4320, Issue , 2001, Pages 316-325

  Gagne, R M ^a   Boswell, J S ^a   Myers, K J ^a   Peter, G ^a  

^a CENTER FOR DEVICES AND RADIOLOGICAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Detectability; Digital radiography; Hotelling; Model observer; Nonprewhitening matched filter; SNR

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL TESTING; RADIOGRAPHY; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

BACKGROUND CORRELATION LENGTH; DETECTIVE QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; DIGITAL IMAGING SYSTEMS; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; HOTELING MATCHED FILTER; LESION DETECTABILITY; NONPREWHITENING MATCHED FILTER; OPTICAL BLUR; SHIFT INVARIANT SYSTEMS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0034867705     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.430902     Document Type: Article

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