Fast LROC analysis of Bayesian reconstructed emission tomographic images using model observers

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1519-1532

  Khurd, Parmeshwar ^a   Gindi, Gene ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

LESION DETECTION; LOCALIZATION RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC (LROC) CURVE; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI (MAP) RECONSTRUCTION; MODEL OBSERVERS;

TOMOGRAPHY;

AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CALCULATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BAYES THEOREM; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEOPLASMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 17144410022     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/50/7/014     Document Type: Article

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