Measures of performance in nonlinear estimation tasks: Prediction of estimation performance at low signal-to-noise ratio

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 3697-3715

  Müller, Stefan P ^a,b   Abbey, Craig K ^c   Rybicki, Frank J ^b   Moore, Stephen C ^b   Kijewski, Marie Foley ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

GAUSSIAN POINT; NOISE LEVEL; NONLINEAR ESTIMATION;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ARTICLE; DENSITY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 23744461514     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 00319155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/50/16/004     Document Type: Article

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