An image-based technique to assess the perceptual quality of clinical chest radiographs

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 7019-7031

  Lin, Yuan ^a   Luo, Hui ^b   Dobbins III, James T ^a   Page McAdams, H ^a   Wang, Xiaohui ^b   Sehnert, William J ^b   Barski, Lori ^b   Foos, David H ^b   Samei, Ehsan ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CARESTREAM HEALTH INC   (United States)

Author keywords

chest image; digital radiography; image quality; perceptual quality; physical quantity

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOGRAPHY;

CHEST IMAGE; DETECTIVE QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; DISTRIBUTION COMPARISONS; IMAGE PROCESSING - METHODS; PERCEPTUAL IMAGE QUALITY; PERCEPTUAL QUALITY; PHYSICAL QUANTITIES;

IMAGE QUALITY;

EID: 84868521724     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4760886     Document Type: Article

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