John A. Swets

Signal detection theory and psychophysics

Book on statistical decision theory and sensory processes in signal detection theory and psychophysics

Measuring the Accuracy of Diagnostic Systems

Diagnostic systems of several kinds are used to distinguish between two classes of events, essentially "signals" and "noise." For them, analysis in terms of the "relative operat...

The Relative Operating Characteristic in Psychology

The clinician looking, listening, or feeling for signs of a disease may far prefer a false alarm to a miss, particularly if the disease is serious and contagious. On the other h...

Indices of discrimination or diagnostic accuracy: Their ROCs and implied models.

Form of empirical ROCs in discrimination and diagnostic tasks: Implications for theory and measurement of performance.

Teaching thinking skills.

A course was developed to teach cognitive skills that apply to learning and intellectual performance independently of subject matter, stressing observation and classification, r...

Is There a Sensory Threshold?

Information Retrieval Systems

Effectiveness of information retrieval methods

Abstract Results of some 50 different retrieval methods applied in three experimental retrieval systems were subjected to the analysis suggested by statistical decision theory. ...

Assessment of Diagnostic Technologies

A general protocol for rigorous evaluation of diagnostic systems in medicine was applied successfully in a comparative study of two radiologic techniques. Accuracies of computed...

Enhanced Interpretation of Diagnostic Images

In radiology, as in various other fields, observers study images to detect and diagnose underlying conditions. They make assessments of several image features and merge them int...

Signal detection by human observers.

Contains reports on three research projects.