Optimizing a multiple-pinhole SPECT system using the ideal observer

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Gross ◽  
Matthew A. Kupinski ◽  
Todd E. Peterson ◽  
Eric Clarkson
Keyword(s):  
Ideal Observer ◽  
Pinhole Spect ◽  
Spect System ◽  
The Ideal

Object Detection Using an Ideal Observer Model

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (16) ◽  
pp. 41-1-41-7
Author(s):  
Orit Skorka ◽  
Paul J. Kane
Keyword(s):  
Object Detection ◽  
Matched Filter ◽  
Image Sensors ◽  
Ideal Observer ◽  
Noise Power ◽  
Relative Evaluation ◽  
Detection And Identification ◽  
Cross Correlation Analysis ◽  
Observer Model ◽  
The Ideal

Many of the metrics developed for informational imaging are useful in automotive imaging, since many of the tasks – for example, object detection and identification – are similar. This work discusses sensor characterization parameters for the Ideal Observer SNR model, and elaborates on the noise power spectrum. It presents cross-correlation analysis results for matched-filter detection of a tribar pattern in sets of resolution target images that were captured with three image sensors over a range of illumination levels. Lastly, the work compares the crosscorrelation data to predictions made by the Ideal Observer Model and demonstrates good agreement between the two methods on relative evaluation of detection capabilities.

scholarly journals Tactile orientation perception: an ideal observer analysis of human psychophysical performance in relation to macaque area 3b receptive fields

2015 ◽  
Vol 114 (6) ◽  
pp. 3076-3096 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan M. Peters ◽  
Phillip Staibano ◽  
Daniel Goldreich
Keyword(s):  
Cortical Neurons ◽  
Human Performance ◽  
Spatial Perception ◽  
Receptive Fields ◽  
Human Perception ◽  
Ideal Observer ◽  
Orientation Discrimination ◽  
Orientation Perception ◽  
Area 3B ◽  
The Ideal

The ability to resolve the orientation of edges is crucial to daily tactile and sensorimotor function, yet the means by which edge perception occurs is not well understood. Primate cortical area 3b neurons have diverse receptive field (RF) spatial structures that may participate in edge orientation perception. We evaluated five candidate RF models for macaque area 3b neurons, previously recorded while an oriented bar contacted the monkey's fingertip. We used a Bayesian classifier to assign each neuron a best-fit RF structure. We generated predictions for human performance by implementing an ideal observer that optimally decoded stimulus-evoked spike counts in the model neurons. The ideal observer predicted a saturating reduction in bar orientation discrimination threshold with increasing bar length. We tested 24 humans on an automated, precision-controlled bar orientation discrimination task and observed performance consistent with that predicted. We next queried the ideal observer to discover the RF structure and number of cortical neurons that best matched each participant's performance. Human perception was matched with a median of 24 model neurons firing throughout a 1-s period. The 10 lowest-performing participants were fit with RFs lacking inhibitory sidebands, whereas 12 of the 14 higher-performing participants were fit with RFs containing inhibitory sidebands. Participants whose discrimination improved as bar length increased to 10 mm were fit with longer RFs; those who performed well on the 2-mm bar, with narrower RFs. These results suggest plausible RF features and computational strategies underlying tactile spatial perception and may have implications for perceptual learning.

Feature extraction method based on the ideal observer

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongbin Zhang ◽  
Eric Clarkson ◽  
Harrison H. Barrett
Keyword(s):  
Feature Extraction ◽  
Extraction Method ◽  
Ideal Observer ◽  
Feature Extraction Method ◽  
The Ideal

scholarly journals Aging effects on expectancy use in driving scenes as assessed by the ideal observer

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (12) ◽  
pp. 1341
Author(s):  
Steven Shimozaki ◽  
Eleanor Swan ◽  
Claire Hutchinson ◽  
Jaspreet Mahal
Keyword(s):  
Ideal Observer ◽  
Aging Effects ◽  
The Ideal

Skepticism, reason, and decision

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Tung-Ying Wu
Keyword(s):  
Decision Theory ◽  
Decision Problem ◽  
Ethical Theory ◽  
Ideal Observer ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
The Third ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
The Ideal

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] "This dissertation is a combination of three different projects. The first project investigates the history of philosophy: Kant's refutation of idealism. In this project I propose a more plausible interpretation of Kant's argument against idealism. Next, the second project investigates ethical theory: the ideal observer view. There, I criticize an argument for ideal observer view as untenable. Finally, the third project investigates decision theory: the decision problem: Psycho Buttons. I argue that causal decision theory supplemented with Full Information does not lead to intransitivity in Psycho Buttons. In this chapter I present an introduction to each project." --Introduction

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