[KIRJA][B] Handbook of anatomical models for radiation dosimetry

XG Xu, KF Eckerman - 2009 - books.google.com
This pioneering work brings together recommendations sanctioned by the International
Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) and documents 40 years of cutting-edge …

Does image quality matter? Impact of resolution and noise on mammographic task performance

RS Saunders Jr, JA Baker, DM Delong… - Medical …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of different resolution and noise levels
on task performance in digital mammography. This study created an image set with images …

Task-driven image acquisition and reconstruction in cone-beam CT

GJ Gang, JW Stayman, T Ehtiati… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
This work introduces a task-driven imaging framework that incorporates a mathematical
definition of the imaging task, a model of the imaging system, and a patient-specific …

An overview of model observers

L Zhang, C Cavaro-Ménard, P Le Callet - IRBM, 2014 - Elsevier
Nowadays, model observers have been used more and more for the objective quality
assessment of medical images. Model observers have been developed from signal known …

Mass detection on mammograms: influence of signal shape uncertainty on human and model observers

C Castella, MP Eckstein, CK Abbey… - Journal of the Optical …, 2009 - opg.optica.org
We studied the influence of signal variability on human and model observers for detection
tasks with realistic simulated masses superimposed on real patient mammographic …

Evaluation of JPEG 2000 encoder options: human and model observer detection of variable signals in X-ray coronary angiograms

Y Zhang, B Pham, MP Eckstein - IEEE transactions on medical …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Previous studies have evaluated the effect of the new still image compression standard
JPEG 2000 using nontask based image quality metrics, ie, peak-signal-to-noise-ratio …

Evaluation of multiclass model observers in PET LROC studies

HC Gifford, PE Kinahan, C Lartizien… - IEEE transactions on …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A localization ROC (LROC) study was conducted to evaluate nonprewhitening matched-filter
(NPW) and channelized NPW (CNPW) versions of a multiclass model observer as predictors …

Effect of dose reduction on the detection of mammographic lesions: a mathematical observer model analysis

AS Chawla, E Samei, R Saunders, C Abbey… - Medical …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
The effect of reduction in dose levels normally used in mammographic screening
procedures on the detection of breast lesions were analyzed. Four types of breast lesions …

Automated optimization of JPEG 2000 encoder options based on model observer performance for detecting variable signals in X-ray coronary angiograms

Y Zhang, BT Pham, MP Eckstein - IEEE transactions on Medical …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Image compression is indispensable in medical applications where inherently large
volumes of digitized images are presented. JPEG 2000 has recently been proposed as a …

Use of sub-ensembles and multi-template observers to evaluate detection task performance for data that are not multivariate normal

X Li, AK Jha, M Ghaly, FEA Elshahaby… - IEEE transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Hotelling Observer (HO) is widely used to evaluate image quality in medical imaging.
However, applying it to data that are not multivariate-normally (MVN) distributed is not …