Metrics of medical image quality: Task-based model observers vs. image discrimination/perceptual difference models

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5, Issue 26, 2004, Pages 42-52

  Eckstein, Miguel P ^a   Zhang, Yani ^a   Pham, Binh T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer automated evaluation; Human performance; Image compression; Image discrimination; JPEG 2000; Metrics of image quality; Model observers; Perceptual difference; Visual detection

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AUTOMATED EVALUATION; HUMAN PERFORMANCE; IMAGE DISCRIMINATION; JPEG 2000; METRICES OF IMAGE QUALITY; MODEL OBSERVERS; PERCEPTUAL DIFFERENCE; VISUAL DETECTION;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; AUTOMATION; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE COMPRESSION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MAMMOGRAPHY; OPTIMIZATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

IMAGE QUALITY;

EID: 12144284569     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.536270     Document Type: Conference Paper

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