Human efficiency in the detection and discrimination tasks

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5, Issue 26, 2004, Pages 166-172

  Reiser, Ingrid ^a   Metz, Charles E ^a   Nishikawa, Robert M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Detection experiment; Discrimination experiment; Image noise; Observer performance

Indexed keywords

DETECTION EXPERIMENTS; DISCRIMINATION EXPERIMENTS; IMAGE NOISE; OBSERVER PERFORMANCES;

DECISION THEORY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; TUMORS;

RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 12144249152     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.536214     Document Type: Conference Paper

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