Efficiency of the human observer detecting random signals in random backgrounds

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

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 3-16

  Park, Subok ^a   Clarkson, Eric ^a   Kupinski, Matthew A ^a   Barrett, Harrison H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE QUALITY; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SIGNAL DETECTION;

HUMAN OBSERVER; IDEAL OBSERVER; SIGNAL LOCATION;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 12844276082     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.22.000003     Document Type: Article

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