Area under the free-response ROC curve (FROC) and a related summary index

Biometrics

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 247-256

  Bandos, Andriy I ^a   Rockette, Howard E ^a   Song, Tao ^a   Gur, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Area under the FROC curve; Bootstrap; FROC; ROC

Indexed keywords

AREA UNDER THE FREE-RESPONSE ROC CURVE CURVE; BOOTSTRAP; DECISION THRESHOLD; FREE RESPONSE; FREE-RESPONSE ROC; FREE-RESPONSE ROC CURVE; ROC; ROC CURVES;

BIOMETRICS;

BOOTSTRAPPING; DATA SET; IMAGING METHOD; SIMULATION; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BOOTSTRAPPING; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; MATHEMATICS; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; ROC CURVE; SAMPLE SIZE; SAMPLING; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS;

EID: 62749097314     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2008.01049.x     Document Type: Article

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