The efficiency of the human observer for lesion detection and localization in emission tomography

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2651-2666

  Liu, Bin ^a   Zhou, Lili ^a   Kulkarni, Santosh ^b   Gindi, Gene ^a,b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stony Brook University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; MAMMOGRAPHY; QUANTUM NOISE; TOMOGRAPHY;

ALTERNATIVE FORCED CHOICE; COMPUTER AIDED DETECTION; CORRELATION STRUCTURE; EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; LESION DETECTION AND LOCALIZATIONS; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE; SIGNAL INTENSITIES; SYSTEM OPTIMIZATIONS;

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TASK PERFORMANCE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; OBSERVER VARIATION;

HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OBSERVER VARIATION; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 67649882763     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/9/004     Document Type: Article

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