Small nodule detectability evaluation using a generalized scan-statistic model

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 23, 2006, Pages 6225-6244

  Popescu, Lucrȩiu M ^a   Lewitt, Robert M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SCANNING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

LIKELIHOOD RATIOS; NODULE DISTRIBUTION; RANDOM FIELDS; SCAN STATISTIC METHODS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ARTICLE; ASSAY; CONTRAST; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NOISE MEASUREMENT; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ALGORITHMS; BIOPHYSICS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OBSERVER VARIATION; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33846883301     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/23/020     Document Type: Article

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