Task-based assessment of breast tomosynthesis: Effect of acquisition parameters and quantum noise

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1591-1600

  Reiser, I ^a   Nishikawa, R M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Objective assessment; Prewhitening observer model; Structured background; Tomosynthesis

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ESTIMATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; MEDICAL IMAGING; QUANTUM NOISE; SIGNAL SAMPLING;

ACQUISITION PARAMETERS; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATIONS; OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT; OBSERVER MODELS; RECONSTRUCTION PARAMETERS; STRUCTURED BACKGROUND; TASK-BASED ASSESSMENT; TOMOSYNTHESIS;

SIGNAL DETECTION;

EID: 77950553921     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3357288     Document Type: Article

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