A Comparison of Human and Model Observers in Multislice LROC Studies

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 160-169

  Gifford, Howard C ^a   King, Michael A ^a   Pretorius, P Hendrik ^a   Wells, R Glenn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b LAWSON HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

LROC observer studies; model observers; SPECT reconstruction; tumor detection

Indexed keywords

CITRIC ACID; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; GALLIUM; GALLIUM CITRATE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LYMPHOMA; METHODOLOGY; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; ROC CURVE; SCINTISCANNING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CITRATES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GALLIUM; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LYMPHOMA; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 17444414967     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2004.839362     Document Type: Article

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