Model for the detection of signals in images with multiple suspicious locations

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 5565-5574

  Popescu, Lucreţiu M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

FROC; LROC; Random fields; ROC; Signal detection

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FUNCTIONS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; TESTING;

FREQUENCY OF APPEARANCE; FROC; LIKELIHOOD RATIO STATISTICS; LROC; MATHEMATICAL DESCRIPTIONS; OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC CURVE; RANDOM FIELDS; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES;

SIGNAL DETECTION;

ARTICLE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 56749154912     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3002413     Document Type: Article

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