Observer detection performance loss: Target size uncertainty

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3036, Issue , 1997, Pages 39-47

  Judy, Philip F ^a   Kijewski, Marie F ^a   Swensson, Richard G ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Image perception; ROC; Target size

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CURVE FITTING; MATCHED FILTERS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PATTERN MATCHING; PIXELS; RENDERING (COMPUTER GRAPHICS); SIGNAL PROCESSING;

CONTROL EXPERIMENTS; CORRELATED NOISE; DETECTION PERFORMANCE; IMAGE PERCEPTION; NOISE CORRELATION; OBSERVER PERFORMANCE; TARGET SIZE; UNCORRELATED NOISE;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

EID: 58849116911     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.271310     Document Type: Conference Paper

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