Efficiency of the human observer for detecting a Gaussian signal at a known location in non-Gaussian distributed lumpy backgrounds

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 911-921

  Park, Subok ^a   Gallas, Bradon D ^a   Badano, Aldo ^a   Petrick, Nicholas A ^a   Myers, Kyle J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL IMAGING AND BIOENGINEERING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; DISPLAY DEVICES; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); STATISTICS;

DATA SCALING; DISPLAY-DEVICE CALIBRATION; GAUSSIAN-DISTRIBUTED LUMPY BACKGROUNDS;

SIGNAL DETECTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 34248398126     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.24.000911     Document Type: Article

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