The effect of nonlinear human visual system components on performance of a channelized hotelling observer in structured backgrounds

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1348-1362

  Zhang, Yani ^a,b   Pham, Binh T ^b   Eckstein, Miguel P ^b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Image compression; Model observer; Nonlinear component; Signal detection

Indexed keywords

CHANNELIZED HOTELLING OBSERVES (CHO); NONLINEAR COMPONENTS; VISUAL CORTEX;

ALGORITHMS; ANGIOGRAPHY; DECISION THEORY; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE COMPRESSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SIGNAL DETECTION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

VISION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMIMETICS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOMIMETICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 33947241392     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2006.880681     Document Type: Article

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