Preface

  • It is intended as an online update to my “physical” book (Chakraborty 2017).
  • Since its publication in 2017 the RJafroc package, on which the R code examples in the book depend, has evolved considerably, causing many of the examples to “break”.
  • This also gives me the opportunity to improve on the book and include additional material.

TBA How much finished

  • HMF approximately 70%
  • This book is currently (as of December 2021) in preparation.
  • Parts labeled TBA and TODOLAST need to be updated on final revision.

The pdf file of the book

Go here and then click on Download to get the RJafrocRocBook.pdf file.

The html version of the book

Go here to view the html version of the book.

A note on the online distribution mechanism of the book

  • In the hard-copy version of my book (Chakraborty 2017) the online distribution mechanism was BitBucket.
  • BitBucket allows code sharing within a closed group of a few users (e.g., myself and a grad student).
  • Since the purpose of open-source code is to encourage collaborations, this was, in hindsight, an unfortunate choice. Moreover, as my experience with R-packages grew, it became apparent that the vast majority of R-packages are shared on GitHub, not BitBucket.
  • For these reasons I have switched to GitHub. All previous instructions pertaining to BitBucket are obsolete.
  • In order to access GitHub material one needs to create a (free) GitHub account.
  • Go to this link and click on Sign Up.

Structure of the book

The book is divided into parts as follows:

  • Part I: Quick Start: intended for existing Windows JAFROC users who are seeking a quick-and-easy transition from Windows JAFROC to RJafroc.
  • Part II: ROC paradigm: this covers the basics of the ROC paradigm
  • Part III: Significance Testing: The general procedure used to determine the significance level, and associated statistics, of the observed difference in figure of merit between pairs of treatments or readers
  • Part IV: FROC paradigm: TBA

Contributing to this book

I appreciate constructive feedback on this document. To do this raise an Issue on the GitHub interface. Click on the Issues tab under dpc10ster/RJafrocRocBook, then click on New issue. When done this way, contributions from users automatically become part of the GitHub documentation/history of the book.

Is this book relevant to you and what are the alternatives?

  • Diagnostic imaging system evaluation
  • Detection
  • Detection combined with localization
  • Detection combined with localization and classification
  • Optimization of Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms
  • CV
  • Alternatives

ToDos TBA

  • Check Bamber theorem derivation.

Chapters needing heavy edits

TBA

Shelved vs. removed vs. parked folders needing heavy edits

  • replace functions with \text{}; eg. \text{erf} and \text{exp} in all of document
  • Also for TPF, FPF etc.
  • Temporarily shelved 17c-rsm-evidence.Rmd in removed folder
  • Now 17-b is breaking; possibly related to changes in RJafroc: had to do with recent changes to RJafroc code - RSM_xFROC etc requiring intrinsic parameters; fixed 17-b
  • parked has dependence of ROC/FROC performance on threshold

Coding aids

  • sprintf(“%.4f”, proper formatting of numbers
  • OpPtStr(, do:
  • kbl(dfA, caption = “….”, booktabs = TRUE, escape = FALSE) %>% collapse_rows(columns = c(1, 3), valign = “middle”) %>% kable_styling(latex_options = c(“basic”, “scale_down”, “HOLD_position”), row_label_position = “c”)
  • ```{r, attr.source = “.numberLines”}
  • kbl(x12, caption = “Summary of optimization results using wAFROC-AUC.”, booktabs = TRUE, escape = FALSE) %>% collapse_rows(columns = c(1), valign = “middle”) %>% kable_styling(latex_options = c(“basic”, “scale_down”, “HOLD_position”), row_label_position = “c”)
  • \(\text{exp} \left ( -\lambda' \right )\) space before dollar sign generates a pdf error
  • FP errors generated by GitHub actions due to undefined labels: Error: Error: pandoc version 1.12.3 or higher is required and was not found (see the help page ?rmarkdown::pandoc_available). In addition: Warning message: In verify_rstudio_version() : Please install or upgrade Pandoc to at least version 1.17.2; or if you are using RStudio, you can just install RStudio 1.0+. Execution halted

References

Chakraborty, Dev P. 2017. Observer Performance Methods for Diagnostic Imaging: Foundations, Modeling, and Applications with R-Based Examples. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.