Analysis of visual search patterns with EMD metric in normalized anatomical space

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1011-1021

  Dempere Marco, Laura ^a,b   Hu, Xiao Peng ^a,c   Ellis, Stephen M ^d   Hansell, David M ^e   Yang, Guang Zhong ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d LONDON CHEST HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e ROYAL BROMPTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Earth mover's distance (EMD); Image registration; Knowledge gathering; Visual search

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

ANATOMICAL SPACE; EARTH MOVER'S DISTANCE (EMD); HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (HRCT); IDIOSYNCRASY; VISUAL SEARCH PATTERNS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOMIMETICS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; LUNG DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOMIMETICS; EYE MOVEMENTS; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 33746875612     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2006.875427     Document Type: Article

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