Modeling human visual detection of low-contrast objects in fluoroscopy image sequences

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3036, Issue , 1997, Pages 21-30

  Wilson, David L ^a,b   Jabri, Kadri N ^a   Xue, Ping ^a  

^a Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Adaptive forced choice; Medical imaging; Motion detectability; Visual perception; X ray dose; X ray fluoroscopy

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; FLUORESCENT SCREENS; IMAGE ACQUISITION; IMAGE QUALITY; MODEL STRUCTURES; OBJECT RECOGNITION; VISION; X RAYS;

ADAPTIVE FORCED-CHOICE; MOTION DETECTABILITY; VISUAL PERCEPTION; X-RAY DOSE; X-RAY FLUOROSCOPY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0042599545     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.271301     Document Type: Conference Paper

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