Impact on Reader Performance for Lesion-Detection/Localization Tasks of Anatomical Priors in SPECT Reconstruction

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1459-1467

  Lehovich, Andre ^a   Gifford, Howard S ^a   Schneider, Peter B ^a   Squires, Shayne ^a   Licho, Robert ^a   King, Michael A ^a   Bruyant, Philippe P ^b   Gindi, Gene ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b FRV Sciences ^*  (France)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anatomical priors; localization receiver operating characteristic (LROC); reader performance; SPECT image reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEOPLASM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC;

ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTHROPOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; ROC CURVE;

EID: 77951197890     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2009.2017741     Document Type: Article

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