Visual search, a vital task for humans and animals, has also become a common and
important tool for studying many topics central to active vision and cognition ranging from …

Most academic radiologists will be familiar with receiver operating characteristic (ROC)
studies. Fundamental studies of human observer performance are now usually performed by …

This pioneering work brings together recommendations sanctioned by the International
Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) and documents 40 years of cutting-edge …

Maintaining the strong pedagogy, abundant student-friendly examples, and engaging
conversational style of the previous editions, the sixth edition of this introductory textbook …

Purpose: To investigate the visibility of simulated lesions in digital breast tomosynthesis (BT)
image volumes compared with 2D digital mammography (DM). Methods: Simulated lesions …

" This book presents the technology evaluation methodology from the point of view of
radiological physics and contrasts the purely physical evaluation of image quality with the …

Advances in 3D imaging technology are transforming how radiologists search for cancer 1, 2
and how security officers scrutinize baggage for dangerous objects. 3 These new 3D …

The efficiencies of the human observer and the channelized-Hotelling observer relative to
the ideal observer for signal-detection tasks are discussed. Both signal-known-exactly (SKE) …

Efficient performance in visual detection tasks requires excluding signals from irrelevant
spatial locations. Indeed, researchers have found that detection performance in many tasks …

Synthetic yet realistic images are valuable for many applications in visual sciences and
medical imaging. Typically, investigators develop algorithms and adjust their parameters to …