Personalized numerical observer

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7627, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Brankov, Jovan G ^a   Pretorius, P Hendrik ^b  

^a ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

human observer; LNO; Model observer; non linear model; numerical observer

Indexed keywords

HUMAN OBSERVERS; LNO; MODEL OBSERVER; NON-LINEAR MODEL; NUMERICAL OBSERVER;

IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL IMAGING; RATING;

OBSERVABILITY;

EID: 79551708181     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.843852     Document Type: Conference Paper

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