Generalization evaluation of machine learning numerical observers for image quality assessment

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1609-1618

  Kalayeh, Mahdi M ^a   Marin, Thibault ^a   Brankov, Jovan G ^a  

^a Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Channelized hotelling observer (CHO); human observer (HumO); image quality; numerical observer; relevance vector machine (RVM); single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)

Indexed keywords

CHANNELIZED HOTELLING OBSERVERS; DETECTION TASKS; GOLD STANDARDS; HUMAN OBSERVERS; HUMAN-OBSERVER PERFORMANCE; IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENT; NUMERICAL OBSERVER; RELEVANCE VECTOR MACHINE;

LEARNING SYSTEMS; PARTICLE BEAMS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

IMAGE QUALITY;

EID: 84879226256     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2013.2257183     Document Type: Article

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