χ2-isocontours: Predictors of performance in nonlinear estimation tasks at low SNR

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3034, Issue , 1997, Pages 176-187

  Müller, Stefan P ^a   Rybicki, Frank J ^a   Abbey, Craig K ^a   Moore, Stephen C ^a   Kijewski, Marie F ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

2 isocontours; Assessment of image quality; Cramer Rao bound; Low SNR; Maximum likelihood estimation; Nonlinear estimation performance; Prediction of task performance; Probability density of maximum likelihood estimates; Quantitation tasks

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC INTENSITY; ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; CHANNEL CAPACITY; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); CRAMER-RAO BOUNDS; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; FADING (RADIO); FISHER INFORMATION MATRIX; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MEDICAL IMAGING; NONLINEAR ANALYSIS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TRELLIS CODES;

ASSESSMENT OF IMAGE QUALITY; LOW SNR; NONLINEAR ESTIMATION PERFORMANCE; PREDICTION OF TASK PERFORMANCE; PROBABILITY DENSITY OF MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATES; QUANTITATION TASKS;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

EID: 57649155019     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.274107     Document Type: Conference Paper

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