Comparison of human and Hotelling observer performance for a fan-beam CT signal detection task

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Sanchez, Adrian A ^a   Sidky, Emil Y ^a   Reiser, Ingrid ^a   Pan, Xiaochuan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

computed tomography; Hotelling observer; image reconstruction; model observers; signal detection

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CUTOFF FREQUENCY; GAUSSIAN BEAMS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; PIXELS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ALTERNATIVE FORCED CHOICE; FILTERED BACKPROJECTION ALGORITHM; HOTELLING OBSERVERS; HUMAN-OBSERVER PERFORMANCE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHM; INFORMATION-THEORETIC APPROACH; MODEL OBSERVER; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

SIGNAL DETECTION;

ADULT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; COVARIANCE; FORCED CHOICE METHOD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NOISE MEASUREMENT; OBSERVATION; OBSERVER BIAS; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OBSERVER VARIATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84874765300     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4789590     Document Type: Conference Paper

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