Area under the Free-Response ROC Curve (FROC) and a Related Summary Index

• Published in: Biometrics Vol. 65; no. 1; pp. 247 - 256
• Main Authors: Bandos, Andriy I., Rockette, Howard E., Song, Tao, Gur, David
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Malden, USA Blackwell Publishing Inc 01.03.2009; Blackwell Publishing; Blackwell Publishing Ltd
• Subjects: Algebra; Area Under Curve; Area under the FROC curve; Biometric Methodology; Biometrics; biometry; Bootstrap; Computer Simulation; Confidence interval; Data analysis; data collection; Datasets; Decision Making, Computer-Assisted; Diagnostic Imaging - standards; Diagnostic Imaging - statistics & numerical data; Estimating techniques; Estimators; FROC; Humans; image analysis; Imaging; Interval estimators; Radiology; Random variables; ROC; ROC Curve; Sample size; Simulation; Statistical variance; variance

Free-response assessment of diagnostic systems continues to gain acceptance in areas related to the detection, localization, and classification of one or more "abnormalities" within a subject. A free-response receiver operating characteristic (FROC) curve is a tool for characterizing the p...