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The ideal observer signal-to-noise ratio has been derived from statistical decision theory for all of the major medical imaging modalities. This yields a context for image performance assessment and instrumentation design and optimization. Measurements on human observers show that they can come close to ideal performance, except when the noise has negative correlations as in images reconstructed from projections. In this latter case they suffer a small but significant penalty.
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Wagner, R.F., Brown, D.G. (1984). Unified Analysis of Medical Imaging System SNR Characteristics. In: Deconinck, F. (eds) Information Processing in Medical Imaging. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6045-9_32
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