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The abscissa of the FROC plot begins at zero, but the upper limit is open. Realistically, a detection system is not very useful if too many false positives are generated, and for most sufficiently large data sets 100% sensitivity is rarely attainable. For these reasons FROC plots rarely show performance above a few false positives per image. As with ROC curves, the Az index is useful for evaluating diagnostic performance. 0 corresponding to perfect performance. The Az value is computed by normalizing the area under the FROC curve by the range of the abscissa.

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The end results are the same for both versions of the algorithm. The evaluation still provides useful information, because one may now select whichever version of the algorithm is conceptually more appealing or computationally less expensive. S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command grants DAMD17-94-J-4015 and DAMD17-94-J4328, Sun Microsystems Academic Equipment Grant EDUD-US-950408, and the NASA Florida Space Grant Consortium grant NGT-40015. REFERENCES 1. ” 2. KW Bowyer, D Kopans, WP Kegelmeyer, Jr, R Moore, M Sallam, K Chang, K Woods.

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