An optimal three-class linear observer derived from decision theory

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 77-83

  He, Xin ^a,b   Frey, Eric C ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Three class classification; Three class hotelling observer (HO); Three class receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis

Indexed keywords

RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC (ROC) ANALYSIS; THREE CLASS CLASSIFICATION; THREE-CLASS HOTELLING OBSERVER (HO);

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DECISION MAKING; LINEAR SYSTEMS; OPTIMAL SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STATISTICS;

DECISION THEORY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33846259294     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2006.885335     Document Type: Article

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