Human performance for detection and discrimination of simulated microcalcifications in mammographic backgrounds

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5749, Issue , 2005, Pages 223-230

  Reiser, Ingrid ^a   Nishikawa, Robert M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Detection experiment; Discrimination experiment; Image noise; Mammographic backgrounds; Observer performance

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; EXPERIMENTS; FORECASTING; FUNCTIONS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; LAW ENFORCEMENT; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTOMETERS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING; WHITE NOISE;

DETECTION EXPERIMENT; DISCRIMINATION EXPERIMENT; IMAGE NOISE; MAMMOGRAPHIC BACKGROUNDS; OBSERVER PERFORMANCE;

CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY);

EID: 24644481026     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.597010     Document Type: Conference Paper

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