Restrictions on the three-class ideal observer's decision boundary lines

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1566-1573

  Edwards, Darrin C ^a   Metz, Charles E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Ideal observers; ROC analysis; Three class classification

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); FUNCTIONS; OBSERVABILITY; PROBABILITY; SET THEORY;

IDEAL OBSERVERS; ROC ANALYSIS; THREE-CLASS CLASSIFICATION;

DECISION THEORY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 29144492129     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2005.859212     Document Type: Article

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