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Statistical Computing in Nuclear Imaging
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Statistical Computing in Nuclear Imaging

by Arkadiusz Sitek
December 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
275 pages
9h 12m
English
CRC Press
Content preview from Statistical Computing in Nuclear Imaging
2
Elements of decision theory
2.1 INTRODUCTION
The ultimate goal of medical imag ing is to answer a clinically relevant ques-
tions about the disease status of patients. As an example, one of the frequent
tasks is to determine if a patient who undergoes medical imaging procedure s
has cancer or not. For this decision problem ther e a re two possible outcomes:
cancer present or not. Another common task is to determine the concentration
of a tracer in the orga n of interest. For this case there is usua lly an infinite
number of outco mes a s the concentration is a continuous variable. Another
task may be to determine if the concentration of tracer changes ...
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ISBN: 9781439849347