An ROC comparison of four methods of combining information from multiple images of the same patient

Medical Physics

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 2552-2563

  Liu, Bei ^a   Metz, Charles E ^a   Jiang, Yulei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Binormal model; Combination of multiple assessments; Computer aided diagnosis; Multiple medical images; ROC analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; MEDICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL IMAGING; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

COMBINATION OF MULTIPLE ASSESSMENTS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS(CAD); CRANIO-CAUDAL VIEWS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISTRIBUTED DECISION; MEDIOLATERAL OBLIQUES; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC CURVES; ROC ANALYSIS;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAMMOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VARIANCE;

EID: 4644353517     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1776674     Document Type: Article

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