Visual signal detection in structured backgrounds. II. Effects of contrast gain control, background variations, and white noise.

No abstract is available for this paper.

• Publication year

  1997

• Venue

  Journal of The Optical Society of America A-optics Image Science and Vision

• Publication date

  1997-09-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Physics, Computer Science, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1364/JOSAA.14.002406PMID 9291610
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

• No claims are published for this paper.

• No concepts are published for this paper.

• Practical issues and methodology in assessment of image quality using model observers

  1997cited by this paper
• Image discrimination models predict detection in fixed but not random noise.

  1997cited by this paper
• Visual signal detectability with two noise components: anomalous masking effects.

  1997cited by this paper
• Model of visual contrast gain control and pattern masking.

  1997cited by this paper
• Visual signal detection in structured backgrounds. I. Effect of number of possible spatial locations and signal contrast.

  1996cited by this paper
• Observer signal-to-noise ratios for the ML-EM algorithm

  1996cited by this paper
• Role of knowledge in human visual temporal integration in spatiotemporal noise.

  1996cited by this paper
• Lesion detection in structured noise.

  1995cited by this paper
• Medical image perception.

  1995cited by this paper
• Models of human image discrimination predict object detection in natural backgrounds

  1995influential reference
• Psychophysical evaluation of the effect of JPEG, full-frame discrete cosine transform (DCT) and wavelet image compression on signal detection in medical image noise

  1995cited by this paper
• Statistically defined backgrounds: performance of a modified nonprewhitening observer model.

  1994cited by this paper
• Improving detection of coronary morphological features from digital angiograms. Effect of stenosis-stabilized display.

  1994cited by this paper
• Human luminance pattern-vision mechanisms: masking experiments require a new model.

  1994cited by this paper
• The effects of adaptation and masking on incremental thresholds for contrast.

  1993cited by this paper
• Model observers for assessment of image quality

  1993cited by this paper
• Physics Of Medical Imaging

  1993cited by this paper
• DCTune: A TECHNIQUE FOR VISUAL OPTIMIZATION OF DCT QUANTIZATION MATRICES FOR INDIVIDUAL IMAGES.

  1993influential reference
• Normalization of cell responses in cat striate cortex

  1992cited by this paper
• Effect of random background inhomogeneity on observer detection performance.

  1992cited by this paper
• Predicting human performance by a channelized Hotelling observer model

  1992cited by this paper
• Cortical neurons: isolation of contrast gain control.

  1992cited by this paper
• Nonlinear Model of Neural Responses in Cat Visual Cortex

  1991influential reference
• Visual signal detection. IV. Observer inconsistency.

  1988cited by this paper
• Addition of a channel mechanism to the ideal-observer model.

  1987cited by this paper
• Putting the visual system noise back in the picture.

  1987cited by this paper
• Contrast discrimination in noise.

  1987cited by this paper
• Detection And Identification Efficiency: An Update

  1985cited by this paper
• Spatial-frequency masking and Birdsall's theorem.

  1985cited by this paper
• Visual signal detection. III. On Bayesian use of prior knowledge and cross correlation.

  1985cited by this paper
• Effect of noise correlation on detectability of disk signals in medical imaging.

  1985cited by this paper
• Uncertainty explains many aspects of visual contrast detection and discrimination.

  1985cited by this paper
• Visual signal detection. I. Ability to use phase information.

  1984cited by this paper
• Visual signal detection. II. Signal-location identification.

  1984cited by this paper
• The statistical reliability of signals in single neurons in cat and monkey visual cortex.

  1983cited by this paper
• Contrast detection and near-threshold discrimination in human vision.

  1981cited by this paper
• Efficiency of human visual signal discrimination.

  1981influential reference
• The absolute efficiency of perceptual decisions.

  1980cited by this paper
• Contrast masking in human vision.

  1980influential reference
• The Physics of Medical Imaging: Recording System Measurements and Techniques

  1979cited by this paper
• Letter: Grating contrast: discrimination may be better than detection.

  1974cited by this paper
• Unidimensional strength theory and component analysis of noise in absolute and comparative judgments

  1968cited by this paper
• Spatial Modulation Transfer in the Human Eye

  1967cited by this paper
• Signal detection theory and psychophysics

  1966cited by this paper
• Effect of Luminance Noise on Contrast Thresholds

  1964cited by this paper
• The theory of signal detectability

  1954cited by this paper

• Perceptual processes as charting operators

  2025cites this paper
• Counterfactual imaginative culture as evidence hallucination in support of anxiety reduction

  2025cites this paper
• Distinct System-Level Computations Underlie Perceptual Variation Across the Visual Field

  2025cites this paper
• The FreiBurger: a new optotype for P300-based acuity estimation

  2024cites this paper
• Discrimination tasks in simulated low-dose CT noise

  2023cites this paper
• Effects of target-amplitude and background-contrast uncertainty predicted by a normalized template-matching observer

  2023cites this paper
• Aging affects gain and internal noise in the visual system

  2020cites this paper
• An expert advantage in detecting unfamiliar visual signals in noise

  2020cites this paper
• 3‐1: Psychophysical Evaluation of Persistence‐ and Frequency‐Limited Displays for Virtual and Augmented Reality

  2019cites this paper
• Distributed attention model of perceptual averaging

  2019cites this paper
• A performance comparison of anthropomorphic model observers for breast cone beam CT images: a single-slice and multislice study.

  2019cites this paper
• Signal detection in American football play calling: A comprehensive literature review

  2019cites this paper
• Signal Detection in Radiology

  2018cites this paper
• Decision-variable correlation

  2018cites this paper
• Information Foraging for Perceptual Decisions. Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and

  2017cites this paper
• Background lighting clutters: how do they affect visual saliency of urban objects?

  2017cites this paper
• Template Learning Model

  2017cites this paper
• Constrained sampling experiments reveal principles of detection in natural scenes

  2017cites this paper
• Can the channelized Hotelling observer including aspects of the human visual system predict human observer performance in mammography?

  2017cites this paper
• Model observers applied to low contrast detectability in computed tomography

  2016cites this paper
• Information Foraging for Perceptual Decisions

  2016cites this paper
• Can the non-pre-whitening model observer, including aspects of the human visual system, predict human observer performance in mammography?

  2016cites this paper
• Asking for Help with the Right Question by Predicting Human Visual Performance

  2016cites this paper
• Noise and the Perceptual Filling-in effect

  2016cites this paper
• Correlated and uncorrelated invisible temporal white noise alters mesopic rod signaling.

  2016cites this paper
• Correlation between human detection accuracy and observer model-based image quality metrics in computed tomography

  2016cites this paper
• Perceptual learning improves neural processing in myopic vision.

  2015cites this paper
• Anthropomorphic model observer performance in three-dimensional detection task for low-contrast computed tomography

  2015cites this paper
• Identification des indices acoustiques utilisés lors de la compréhension de la parole dégradée

  2015cites this paper
• Derivation of an Observer Model Adapted to Irregular Signals Based on Convolution Channels

  2015cites this paper
• Sensitivity to gaze-contingent contrast increments in naturalistic movies: An exploratory report and model comparison.

  2015cites this paper
• Task-based measures of image quality and their relation to radiation dose and patient risk

  2015cites this paper
• Developmental mechanisms underlying improved contrast thresholds for discriminations of orientation signals embedded in noise

  2014influential citation
• The external noise normalized gain profile of spatial vision.

  2014cites this paper
• Retina-V1 model of detectability across the visual field.

  2014cites this paper
• Noise Provides New Insights on Contrast Sensitivity Function

  2014cites this paper
• Action video game play facilitates the development of better perceptual templates

  2014cites this paper
• A model observer based on human perception to quantify the detectability

  2014cites this paper
• Local masking in natural images: a database and analysis.

  2014cites this paper
• A neural population model for visual pattern detection.

  2013cites this paper
• Correlation between human observer performance and model observer performance in differential phase contrast CT.

  2013cites this paper
• Using auditory classification images for the identification of fine acoustic cues used in speech perception

  2013cites this paper
• Generalization Evaluation of Machine Learning Numerical Observers for Image Quality Assessment

  2013cites this paper
• A database of local masking thresholds in natural images

  2013cites this paper
• Sensitivity to Information Conveyed by Horizontal Contours is Correlated with Face Identification Accuracy

  2012influential citation
• Effect of slice thickness on detectability in breast CT using a prewhitened matched filter and simulated mass lesions.

  2012cites this paper
• Zero-dimensional noise: the best mask you never saw.

  2012cites this paper
• Visual saliency of urban objects at night: Impact of the density of background light patterns

  2011cites this paper
• Intrinsic position uncertainty explains detection and localization performance in peripheral vision.

  2011cites this paper
• Creation of an artifact database and experimental measurement of their detectability thresholds in noises of different spectra, in the context of quality control of an x-ray imager

  2011cites this paper
• Effects of ocular aberrations on contrast detection in noise.

  2011cites this paper
• Estimating the growth of internal evidence guiding perceptual decisions.

  2011cites this paper
• Application of signal detection theory to the recognition of objects in colour-encoded X-ray images

  2010cites this paper
• Ideal observer analysis of crowding and the reduction of crowding through learning.

  2010cites this paper
• [An investigation of the subjective assessment of fluoroscopic imaging using instantaneous detectability].

  2010cites this paper
• Visual Detection Under Uncertainty Operates Via an Early Static, Not Late Dynamic, Non-Linearity

  2010influential citation
• Characterizing perceptual performance at multiple discrimination precisions in external noise.

  2009influential citation
• Learning cue validity through performance feedback.

  2009cites this paper
• Frequency tuning of perceptual templates changes with noise magnitude.

  2009cites this paper
• Stochastic model for detection of signals in noise.

  2009cites this paper
• Ultrasonic array beamforming with iterative spatial filters

  2009cites this paper
• Saccadic facilitation in natural backgrounds.

  2008cites this paper
• The efficiency of biological motion perception

  2008cites this paper
• Oculomotor capture by transient events: a comparison of abrupt onsets, offsets, motion, and flicker.

  2008cites this paper
• Characterizing observers using external noise and observer models: assessing internal representations with external noise.

  2008influential citation
• What limits performance in the amblyopic visual system: seeing signals in noise with an amblyopic brain.

  2008cites this paper
• Evaluation of internal noise methods for Hotelling observer models.

  2007cites this paper
• A special issue on application od signal detection theory to visual perception.

  2007cites this paper
• The response of the amblyopic visual system to noise.

  2007influential citation
• The effect of experience on detectability in local area anatomical noise.

  2007cites this paper
• Limited flexibility in the filter underlying saccadic targeting.

  2007cites this paper
• Induced internal noise in perceptual artificial scotomas created by surrounding dynamic noise.

  2007influential citation
• Optimal observer model of single-fixation oddity search predicts a shallow set-size function.

  2007cites this paper
• A special issue on applications of Signal Detection Theory to visual perception

  2007cites this paper
• Adaptive detection mechanisms in globally statistically nonstationary-oriented noise.

  2006cites this paper
• Identify mechanisms of amblyopia in Gabor orientation identification with external noise.

  2006cites this paper
• Identification of simulated microcalcifications in white noise and mammographic backgrounds.

  2006cites this paper
• The effect of nonlinear human visual system components on performance of a channelized Hotelling observer in structured backgrounds

  2006cites this paper
• Classification images for detection, contrast discrimination, and identification tasks with a common ideal observer.

  2006cites this paper
• Bayesian adaptive estimation of threshold versus contrast external noise functions: the quick TvC method.

  2006cites this paper
• Adaptation to sine-wave gratings selectively reduces the contrast gain of the adapted stimuli.

  2006cites this paper
• Observer efficiency in discrimination tasks Simulating Malignant and benign breast lesions imaged with ultrasound

  2006cites this paper
• Classification images with uncertainty.

  2006cites this paper
• Contrast-detail analysis of three flat panel detectors for digital radiography.

  2006cites this paper
• Visibility and annoyance of LCD defective sub-pixels of different colors for different surrounds and positions

  2006cites this paper
• Why is second-order vision less efficient than first-order vision?

  2005influential citation
• Task-based model/human observer evaluation of SPIHT wavelet compression with human visual system-based quantization.

  2005cites this paper
• A standard model for foveal detection of spatial contrast.

  2005cites this paper
• The efficiency of biological motion perception.

  2005cites this paper
• Human performance for detection and discrimination of simulated microcalcifications in mammographic backgrounds

  2005cites this paper
• Automated optimization of JPEG 2000 encoder options based on model observer performance for detecting variable signals in X-ray coronary angiograms

  2004cites this paper
• Human efficiency in the detection and discrimination tasks

  2004cites this paper
• What is the signal in noise?

  2004cites this paper
• Perceptual learning retunes the perceptual template in foveal orientation identification.

  2004cites this paper
• Observer models and human visual detection performance with different targets

  2004cites this paper
• Temporal tuning characteristics of the perceptual template and endogenous cuing of spatial attention.

  2004cites this paper
• Observer efficiency in discrimination tasks simulating malignant and benign breast lesions with ultrasound

  2004cites this paper
• Perceptual learning through optimization of attentional weighting: human versus optimal Bayesian learner.

  2004cites this paper
• Characterizing perceptual learning with external noise

  2004cites this paper
• Matched Filter Processor for Detection and Discrimination of Unexploded Ordnance

  2003cites this paper