Efficiency of the human observer compared to an ideal observer based on a generalized NEQ which incorporates scatter and geometric unsharpness: Evaluation with a 2AFC experiment

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5749, Issue , 2005, Pages 251-262

  Kyprianou, Iacovos S ^a,d   Ganguly, Arundhuti ^b   Rudin, Stephen ^c   Bednarek, Daniel R ^c   Gallas, Brandon D ^a   Myers, Kyle J ^a  

^a CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^d CENTER FOR DEVICES AND RADIOLOGICAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiography; Detectability; DQE; Generalized; Microrangiography; MTF; NEQ; NPS; Observer; SNR; System

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; ACOUSTIC INTENSITY; ANGIOGRAPHY; DETECTORS; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; EXPERIMENTS; FORESTRY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; IODINE; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; POWER SPECTRUM; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING;

DETECTABILITY; DQE; GENERALIZED; MICRORANGIOGRAPHY; MTF; NEQ; NPS; OBSERVER; SNR; SYSTEM;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 24644455266     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.595870     Document Type: Conference Paper

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