On ideal AFROC and FROC observers

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7263, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Khurd, Parmeshwar ^a   Liu, Bin ^b   Gindi, Gene ^b  

^a PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

AFROC; FROC; Ideal observer

Indexed keywords

AFROC; BAYES RISK; COST CONSTRAINTS; DECISION STRATEGY; FALSE POSITIVE; FREE-RESPONSE RECEIVERS; FROC; IDEAL OBSERVER; IDEAL OBSERVERS; LESION DETECTION; MEDICAL IMAGES; OBSERVER PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE COMPARISON; PERFORMANCE METRICS; SYSTEM OPTIMIZATIONS;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; RISK PERCEPTION; SIGNAL DETECTION; TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 67249123404     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.811183     Document Type: Conference Paper

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