Detection performance theory for ultrasound imaging systems
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...Generally, in recent literature, beamforming based image degradation—including diffraction limitations and sound speed inhomogeneity—is widely considered to be the dominant source of in vivo image corruption [4]–[7]....
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...imaging system optimization [2]–[4] and other applications [5]....
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...the CNR, including this resolution term, represents the ideal observer in the task of lesion detection [25], [26]....
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...The YN ideal observer SNR is related to 2AFC SNR by the equation [5], [24], thus...
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...The test statistic of the ideal observer is the log-likelihood ratio [5], [8]...
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...This type of task is often called a YES/NO (YN) task [5]....
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...Performance is quantified with a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve [5]....
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...These can be obtained from the characteristic function [16] of the test statistic, viewed as the Fourier transform of the probabilities or ....
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