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. 2013 Oct 4;3(10):774–786. doi: 10.7150/thno.5138

Table 1.

Table of Abbreviations.

Acronyms Full name
FOM figure-of-merit
ROC receiver operating characteristics
AUC area under ROC curve
IO ideal observer
SKE signal known exactly
SKS signal know statistically
BKE background known exactly
BKS background known statistically
PDF probability density function
HO Hotelling observer
SNR signal-to-noise ratio
CIO channelized ideal observer
CHO channelized Hotelling observer
LR likelihood ratio
MCMC Markov chain Monte Carlo
LG Laguerre Gauss
SV Singular vector
PLS partial least square
MRMC multi-reader multi-case