Evaluation of internal noise methods for Hotelling observer models

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 3312-3322

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Image compression; Internal noise; Model observer; Signal detection

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; IMAGE COMPRESSION; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL IMAGING; SIGNAL DETECTION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; STATISTICS;

ALTERNATIVE FORCED CHOICE; CHANNELIZED HOTELLING OBSERVERS; HOTELLING OBSERVERS; HUMAN-OBSERVER PERFORMANCE; INTERNAL NOISE; MODEL OBSERVER; NONUNIFORM CHANNELS; QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON;

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; IMAGE INTENSIFIER; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VARIANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; X RAY ANALYSIS;

EID: 34547415658     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2756603     Document Type: Article

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