Optimal shifted estimates of human-observer templates in two-alternative forced-choice experiments

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 429-440

  Abbey, Craig K ^a   Eckstein, Miguel P ^b  

^a Davis   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification image; Observer models; Observer template

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MONTE CARLO METHODS; MOTION ESTIMATION; OPTIMIZATION;

CLASSIFICATION IMAGE; HUMAN-OBSERVER TEMPLATES; OBSERVER MODELS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NON-PROGRAMMATIC; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; QUALITY CONTROL; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; VALIDATION STUDY; VISION;

NON-PROGRAMMATIC;

CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); STATISTICS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0036557906     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2002.1009379     Document Type: Conference Paper

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