Assessment of scanning model observers with hybrid SPECT images

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6917, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Gifford, H C ^a   Pretorius, P H ^a   King, M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Lung imaging; Model observers; Observer performance evaluation; Solitary pulmonary nodules; SPECT; Technology assessment

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTITASKING; REPAIR; RESTORATION; SCANNING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; STANDARDS; TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING; TECHNOLOGY; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

ATTENUATION CORRECTION (AC); BLOCK-ITERATIVE; CHANNELIZED NONPREWHITENING (CNPW); DETECTION PERFORMANCES; HUMAN OBSERVERS; IMAGE PERCEPTION; IN ORDER; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTIONS; LOCALIZATION ROC (LROC); MODEL OBSERVERS; NUMBER OF ITERATIONS; OBSERVER (OBS); OBSERVER PERFORMANCES; PRIOR KNOWLEDGE; PULMONARY NODULES (PN); SCATTER CORRECTIONS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (SPECT) IMAGES; SPECT LUNG; STRUCTURAL NOISE; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT (TA); TEST PROCEDURES;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 44949120830     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.770994     Document Type: Conference Paper

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