Effect of correlation on combining diagnostic information from two images of the same patient

Medical Physics

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 3329-3338

  Liu, Bei ^a   Metz, Charles E ^a   Jiang, Yulei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Bivariate binormal model; Computer aided diagnosis; Correlation; ROC analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; CORRELATION METHODS; DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL COMPUTING; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

AREA UNDER THE ROC CURVE; BIVARIATE; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS(CAD); CORRELATION STRENGTH; DIAGNOSTIC PERFORMANCE; DISTRIBUTED DECISION; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC ANALYSIS; ROC ANALYSIS;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAMMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC;

EID: 28044464484     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2064787     Document Type: Article

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