Comparison of model and human observer performance for detection and discrimination tasks using dual-energy x-ray images.

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• Publication year

  2008

• Venue

  Medical Physics (Lancaster)

• Publication date

  2008-11-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Physics, Computer Science

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  DOI 10.1118/1.2988161PMID 19070238PMCID PMC2673596
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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