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Performance comparison of a neural network with human observers on a visual target detection task
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Performance comparison of a neural network with human observers on a visual target detection task

J. K Mangis, R. B Voas, W. T Zink, Kim Tiplitz Blackwell and T. P Vogl
Biological cybernetics, Vol.62(3), pp.185-191
1990
DOI: 10.1007/BF00198093
PMID: 2302427

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Abstract

An experiment is described which compares the performance of a neural network to human performance on a visual task which consists of detecting a target in a background image of correlated noise. A three-layer, feed-forward, multi-layer perceptron is trained to indicate the presence or absence of a target in images also presented to human observers. The basis for the comparison between the network and the human observers is the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve. Network performance is comparable to human performance for this particular task.
Biological and medical sciences Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology Perception Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry Psychology. Psychophysiology Theories

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