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The final step of the medical imaging process is display to a human for interpretation. In many cases the detectability of the visual signals is limited by statistical fluctuations. Under these circumstances it is possible, in principle, to calculate the best possible signal detection performance. We find that under some conditions humans can closely approach this limiting performance.
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Burgess, A.E. (1986). Human Visual Signal Detection and Identification Performance. In: Bacharach, S.L. (eds) Information Processing in Medical Imaging. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4261-5_2
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