How image based factors and human factors contribute to threat detection performance in x-ray aviation security screening

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5298 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 419-438

  Bolfing, Anton ^a,b   Halbherr, Tobias ^a,b   Schwaninger, Adrian ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aviation security; Human factors; Image based factors; X ray imaging

Indexed keywords

EXPLOSIVES; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; LINEAR REGRESSION; USABILITY ENGINEERING; X RAY SCREENS;

AVIATION SECURITY; BIVARIATE CORRELATIONS; IMAGE-BASED; IMPROVISED EXPLOSIVE DEVICES; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE STATISTICS; X-RAY IMAGE INTERPRETATION; XRAY IMAGING;

FACTOR ANALYSIS;

EID: 70350637534     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-89350-9_30     Document Type: Conference Paper

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