Comparison of the channelized Hotelling and human observers for lesion detection in hepatic SPECT imaging

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3036, Issue , 1997, Pages 14-20

  King, Michael A ^a   De Vries, Daniel J ^a   Soares, Edward J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Department of Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

Human observer; Lesion detection; Numerical observer; ROC analysis; Signal to noise ratio; SPECT

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC INTENSITY; IMAGE QUALITY; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TECHNETIUM;

HUMAN OBSERVER; LESION DETECTION; NUMERICAL OBSERVER; ROC ANALYSIS; SPECT;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 58749092658     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.271290     Document Type: Conference Paper

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