Volumetric detection tasks with varying complexity: Human observer performance

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 8318, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Platiša, Ljiljana ^a   Kumcu, Asli ^a   Platisa, Milan ^b   Vansteenkiste, Ewout ^a   Deblaere, Karel ^c   Badano, Aldo ^d   Philips, Wilfried ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b TASS NV   (Belgium)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^d CENTER FOR DEVICES AND RADIOLOGICAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Detection task; Efficiency; Human observer; Model observer; Stack browsing; Volumetric images

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; EFFICIENCY; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); IMAGE QUALITY;

DETECTION TASKS; HUMAN OBSERVERS; MODEL OBSERVER; STACK BROWSING; VOLUMETRIC IMAGES;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 84888792179     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.911558     Document Type: Conference Paper

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