Influence of study design on digital pathology image quality evaluation: The need to define a clinical task

Journal of Medical Imaging

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2017, Pages

  Platiša, Ljiljana ^a   Brantegem, Leen Van ^a   Kumcu, Asli ^a   Ducatelle, Richard ^a   Philips, Wilfried ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

digital pathology; human observer; image compression; image quality; signal detection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COLOR VISION; DOG; FEMALE; FOAL; GENDER; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PATHOLOGY; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SIGNAL DETECTION; STUDY DESIGN; VISUAL ATTENTION;

EID: 85021705157     PISSN: 23294302     EISSN: 23294310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JMI.4.2.021108     Document Type: Article

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