In imaging tasks where the observer is uncertain whether lesions are present, and where they could be present, the image is searched for lesions. In the free-response paradigm, which closely reflects this task, the observer provides data in the form of a variable number of mark-rating pairs per image. In a companion paper a statistical model of visual search has been proposed that has parameter...

objectives: the aims of this study were to test whether lightening of the overexposed radiographs improve determination of endodontic files length and whether lightened radiographs are comparable with ideally exposed radiographs. material and methods: four dried human skull coated with soft tissue-equivalent wax used for exposing radiographs of the upper molars. first, the endodontic file was p...

Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves are widely used to measure the discriminating power of medical tests and other classification procedures. In many practical applications, the performance of these procedures can depend on covariates such as age, naturally leading to a collection of curves associated with different covariate levels. This paper develops a Bayesian heteroscedastic sem...

Distributions have several different types of associated functions. The most familiar is the density function. Figure 1A and 1D show density functions for the normal distribution and gamma distribution, respectively. Density functions are related to histograms in that if enough data are collected then the histogram and density share the same shape. Hence, density functions serve as a first-orde...

Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves are frequently used to compare the accuracy of two or more imaging modalities. This paper addresses the use of ROC analysis to evaluate the speed and accuracy of digital mammography, as compared to conventional film-screen mammography.

Disease prevention is important and can be accomplished by developing diagnostic tests. The receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve and the area under the ROC curve (AUC) are used to assess the accuracy of diagnostic tests. The assessment for the superiority between evaluating two diagnostic tests is needed when comparing two diagnostic tests. Existing tests are constructed by comparing t...

Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) analysis is one of the most widely used methods for summarizing intrinsic properties of a diagnostic system, and is often used in evaluation and comparison of diagnostic technologies, practices or systems. These methods play an important role in public health since they enable researchers to achieve a greater insight into the properties of diagnostic test...

Wireless capsule endoscopy involves inspection of hours of video material by a highly qualified professional. Time episodes corresponding to intestinal contractions, which are of interest to the physician constitute about 1% of the video. The problem is to label automatically time episodes containing contractions so that only a fraction of the video needs inspection. As the classes of contracti...

In this note we extend the well-known binormal model via implementation of the epsilon-skew-normal (ESN) distribution developed by Mudholkar and Hutson (2000). We derive the equation for the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve assuming epsilon-skew-binormal (ESBN) model and examine the behavior of the maximum likelihood estimates for estimating the ESBN parameters. We then summarize t...