Theoretical performance analysis of multislice channelized Hotelling observers

Bart Goossens; Ljiljana Platiša; Wilfried Philips

doi:10.1117/12.912068

22 February 2012 Theoretical performance analysis of multislice channelized Hotelling observers

Bart Goossens, Ljiljana Platiša, Wilfried Philips

Proceedings Volume 8318, Medical Imaging 2012: Image Perception, Observer Performance, and Technology Assessment; 83180U (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.912068
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2012, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Quality assessment of 3D medical images is becoming increasingly important, because of clinical practice rapidly moving in the direction of volumetric imaging. In a recent publication, three multi-slice channelized Hotelling observer (msCHO) models are presented for the task of detecting 3D signals in multi-slice images, where each multi-slice image is inspected in a so called stack-browsing mode. The observer models are based on the assumption that humans observe multi-slice images in a simple two stage process, and each of the models implement this principle in a different way. In this paper, we investigate the theoretical performance, in terms of detection signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR) of msCHO models, for the task of detecting a separable signal in a Gaussian background with separable covariance matrix. We find that, despite the differences in architecture of the three models, they all have the same asymptotical performance in this task (i.e., when the number of training images tends to infinity). On the other hand, when backgrounds with nonseparable covariance matrices are considered, the third model, msCHO_c, is expected to perform slightly better than the other msCHO models (msCHO_a and msCHO_b), but only when sufficient training images are provided. These findings suggest that the choice between the msCHO models mainly depends on the experiment setup (e.g., the number of available training samples), while the relation to human observers depends on the particular choice of the "temporal" channels that the msCHO models use.

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Bart Goossens, Ljiljana Platiša, and Wilfried Philips "Theoretical performance analysis of multislice channelized Hotelling observers", Proc. SPIE 8318, Medical Imaging 2012: Image Perception, Observer Performance, and Technology Assessment, 83180U (22 February 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.912068

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Signal detection

Signal to noise ratio

3D modeling

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