Volume I (consisting of Parts 1 and 2), which concerns the physics and the psychophysics of medical imaging, begins with a fundamental description of x-ray imaging physics and progresses to a review of linear systems theory and its application to an understanding of signal and noise propagation in such systems. The subsequent chapters concern the physics of the important individual imaging modalities currently in use: ultrasound, CT, MRI, the recently emerging technology of flat panel x-ray detectors and, in particular, their application to mammography. The second half of this volume, on psychophysics, describes the current understanding of the relationship between image quality metrics and visual perception of the diagnostic information carried by medical images. In addition, various models of perception in the presence of noise or ''unwanted'' signal are described. Lastly, the statistical methods used in determining the efficacy of medical imaging tasks, ROC analysis and its variants, are discussed.
Contents:
Part I. Physics
1. X-ray production, interaction, and detection in diagnostic imaging -- John Boone
2. Applied linear-systems theory -- Ian Cunningham
3. Image quality metrics for digital systems -- James Dobbins
4. Flat panel detectors for digital radiography -- John Yorkston, John Rowlands
5. Digital mammography -- Martin Yaffe
6. Magnetic resonance imaging -- David Pickens
7. Three-dimensional ultrasound imaging -- Aaron Fenster, Donal Downey
8. Tomographic imaging -- David Goodenough
Part II. Psychophysics
Introduction Harold Kundel
9. Ideal observer models of visual signal detection -- Kyle Myers
10. A practical guide to model observers for visual detection in synthetic and natural noisy images -- Miguel Eckstein, Craig Abbey, Francois Buchod
11. Modeling visual detection tasks in correlated image noise with linear model observers -- Craig Abbey, Francois Buchod
12. Effects of anatomical structure on signal detection -- Ehsan Samei, William Eyler, Lisa Baron
13. Synthesizing anatomical images for image understanding -- Jannick Rolland
14. Quantitative image quality studies and the design of x-ray fluoroscopy systems -- David Wilson, Kadri Jabri, Ravindra Manjeshwar
15. Fundamental ROC analysis -- Charles Metz
16. The FROC, AFROC, and DROC variants of the ROC analysis -- Dev Chakraborty
17. Agreement and accuracy mixture distribution analysis -- Marcia Polansky
18. Visual search in medical images -- Harold Kundel
19. The nature of expertise in radiology -- Calvin Nodine, Claudia Mello-Thoms
20. Practical applications of perceptual research -- Elizabeth Krupinski