On comparing methods for discriminating between actually negative and actually positive subjects with FROC type data

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1547-1558

  Song, Tao ^a   Bandos, Andriy I ^a   Rockette, Howard E ^a   Gur, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Discriminative ability; FROC; Nonparametric statistics; ROC; Subject based

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; FUNCTIONS; MILITARY PHOTOGRAPHY; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

COMPARISON FUNCTIONS; DISCRIMINATIVE ABILITY; FREE-RESPONSE RECEIVERS; FROC; NON-PARAMETRIC STATISTICS; SIMULATION STUDIES; STOCHASTIC DOMINANCE; SUBJECT-BASED;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EVALUATION; FREE RESPONSE RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCORING SYSTEM; SIMULATION;

EID: 41449105566     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2890410     Document Type: Article

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