Effect of inherent location uncertainty on detection of stationary targets in noisy image sequences

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 78-85

  Manjeshwar, Ravindra M ^a   Wilson, David L ^a,b  

^a Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMAN; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHYSIOLOGY;

ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD;

MEDICAL IMAGING; PROBABILITY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; X RAY ANALYSIS;

IMAGE SEQUENCES;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0035219256     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.18.000078     Document Type: Article

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