Detection performance theory for ultrasound imaging systems

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 300-310

  Zemp, Roger J ^a,b   Parry, Mark D ^a   Abbey, Craig K ^a,c   Insana, Michael F ^a,d  

^a Davis   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Decision theory; Image quality; Speckle

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; DECISION THEORY; IMAGE QUALITY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PERFORMANCE; SPECKLE; TUMORS; ULTRASONICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGING; STATISTICAL METHODS; ULTRASONIC EQUIPMENT;

ELECTRONIC NOISE; PHASE INFORMATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING ALGORITHMS; ULTRASONIC IMAGE QUALITY; DETECTION PERFORMANCE THEORY; ULTRASOUND IMAGING SYSTEMS; ULTRASOUND SYSTEMS;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; BENCHMARKING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 19044369433     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2004.841226     Document Type: Article

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