Front Matter

Table of Contents

• Front Matter

• PART I. PHYSICS
• 1. X-Ray Production, Interaction, and Detection in Diagnostic Imaging

• 2. Applied Linear-Systems Theory

• 3. Image Quality Metrics for Digital Systems

• 4. Flat Panel Detectors for Digital Radiography

• 5. Digital Mammography

• 6. Magnetic Resonance Imaging

• 7. Three-Dimensional Ultrasound Imaging

• 8. Tomographic Imaging

• PART II. PSYCHOPHYSICS
• 9. Ideal Observer Models of Visual Signal Detection

• 10. A Practical Guide to Model Observers for Visual Detection in Synthetic and Natural Noisy Images

• 11. Modeling Visual Detection Tasks in Correlated Image Noise with Linear Model Observers

• 12. Effects of Anatomical Structure on Signal Detection

• 13. Synthesizing Anatomical Images for Image Understanding

• 14. Quantitative Image Quality Studies and the Design of X-Ray Fluoroscopy Systems

• 15. Fundamental ROC Analysis

• 16. The FROC, AFROC and DROC Variants of the ROC Analysis

• 17. Agreement and Accuracy Mixture Distribution Analysis

• 18. Visual Search in Medical Images

• 19. The Nature of Expertise in Radiology

• 20. Practical Applications of Perceptual Research

• Back Matter