Estimation of channelized hotelling observer performance with known class means or known difference of class means

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1198-1207

  Wunderlich, Adam ^a   Noo, Frédéric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Auc; Class discrimination; Estimation; Image quality; Receiver operating characteristic (ROC); Signal to noise ratio (SNR)

Indexed keywords

AUC; BIAS AND VARIANCE; CHANNELIZED HOTELLING OBSERVERS; CLASS DISCRIMINATION; CLASS MEAN; DETECTION PERFORMANCE; FINITE NUMBER; MEAN-SQUARE ERRORS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC (ROC); SAMPLING DISTRIBUTION; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO (SNR); TASK-BASED IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENT; UNIFORMLY MINIMUM VARIANCE UNBIASED ESTIMATORS;

ACOUSTIC INTENSITY; IMAGE QUALITY; LAW ENFORCEMENT; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ESTIMATION;

ALGORITHM; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; METHODOLOGY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; ROC CURVE; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; AREA UNDER CURVE; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ROC CURVE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 68249111106     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2009.2012705     Document Type: Article

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