John A. Swets

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John A. Swets is affiliated with the following schools: University of Michigan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University

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John A. Swets

Psychology

#651

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#844

Historical Rank

#410

USA Rank

Cognitive Psychology

#53

World Rank

#55

Historical Rank

#23

USA Rank

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According to Wikipedia, John A. Swets was a psychologist. He played a key role in the adaptation of signal detection theory first to the psychology of perception and later as a central tool in medical diagnostics. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

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John A. Swets's Published Works

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Signal detection theory and psychophysics (1966) (12141)
Measuring the accuracy of diagnostic systems. (1988) (8667)
Decision processes in perception. (1961) (1311)
Evaluation of diagnostic systems : methods from signal detection theory (1982) (1298)
A decision-making theory of visual detection. (1954) (1240)
Signal Detection Theory and ROC Analysis in Psychology and Diagnostics: Collected Papers (1996) (832)
Psychological Science Can Improve Diagnostic Decisions (2000) (812)
The Relative Operating Characteristic in Psychology (1973) (710)
ROC analysis applied to the evaluation of medical imaging techniques. (1979) (694)
Indices of discrimination or diagnostic accuracy: their ROCs and implied models. (1986) (585)
Better decisions through science. (2000) (584)
Form of empirical ROCs in discrimination and diagnostic tasks: implications for theory and measurement of performance. (1986) (503)
Signal detection and recognition by human observers : contemporary readings (1964) (482)
Is there a sensory threshold? (1961) (352)
Teaching Thinking Skills (1986) (273)
Assessment of diagnostic technologies. (1979) (258)
The science of choosing the right decision threshold in high-stakes diagnostics. (1992) (231)
Information Retrieval Systems. (1963) (212)
Enhanced interpretation of diagnostic images. (1988) (188)
Effectiveness of information retrieval methods (1969) (165)
Enhancing Human Performance: Issues, Theories, and Techniques (1988) (151)
System operator response to warnings of danger: A laboratory investigation of the effects of the predictive value of a warning on human response time. (1995) (146)
Factors affecting the slope of empirical ROC curves: Comparison of binary and rating responses (1967) (130)
Enhancing and Evaluating Diagnostic Accuracy (1991) (129)
Multiple Observations of Signals in Noise (1959) (122)
Detection theory and psychophysics: A review (1961) (79)
Staging prostate cancer with MR imaging: a combined radiologist-computer system. (1997) (74)
Computer-aided instruction. (1965) (73)
Some general properties of the hearing mechanism (1956) (68)
Reading and decision aids for improved accuracy and standardization of mammographic diagnosis. (1992) (66)
Indices of Signal Detectability Obtained with Various Psychophysical Procedures (1959) (61)
CENTRAL FACTORS IN AUDITORY FREQUENCY SELECTIVITY. (1963) (56)
Signal Detection Theory Applied to Vigilance (1977) (54)
On the prediction of confusion matrices from similarity judgments (1979) (53)
On the Width of Critical Bands (1962) (53)
Invariance of signal detectability over stages of practice and levels of motivation (1963) (52)
The human use of information-I: Signal detection for the case of the signal known exactly (1954) (50)
Enhancing Human Performance: An Evaluation of “New Age” Techniques Considered by the U.S. Army (1990) (45)
Sensitivities and specificities of diagnostic tests. (1982) (39)
Deferred decision in human signal detection: A preliminary experiment (1967) (38)
The evidence for a decision-making theory of visual detection (1955) (37)
Stimulus vs Response Uncertainty in Recognition (1961) (37)
Prostate cancer: relative effects of demographic, clinical, histologic, and MR imaging variables on the accuracy of staging. (1997) (32)
Learning to Identify Nonverbal Sounds: An Application of a Computer as a Teaching Machine. Technical Report. (1962) (32)
COMPUTER-AIDED TEACHING IN MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS. (1964) (31)
Experiments with computer-controlled displays in second-language learning (1972) (31)
Patient-Oriented Performance Measures of Diagnostic Tests (1984) (30)
Comparison of predictive validities measured with biserial correlations and ROCs of signal detection theory. (1991) (28)
Multimodality diagnosis of liver tumors: feature analysis with CT, liver-specific and contrast-enhanced MR, and a computer model. (2002) (22)
Applications of Signal Detection Theory (1978) (22)
The human use of information-III: Decision-making in signal detection and recognition situations involving multiple alternatives (1956) (21)
Assessment of NDT systems. I. The relationship of true and falx detections. II. Indices of performance (1983) (20)
Enhancing diagnostic decisions. (1998) (19)
Signal Detection by Human Observers (1959) (19)
Computer-aided instruction in perceptual identification. (1966) (18)
Spatially-limited attention to vibrotactile stimulation (1970) (17)
CHAPTER 1 – Fundamentals of Accuracy Analysis (1982) (17)
A NEW THEORY OF VISUAL DETECTION (1953) (15)
Assembly and alignment of conjugated polymers: materials design, processing, and applications (2015) (13)
Vibrotactile signal detection (1969) (12)
Psychology and the handicapped child (1974) (12)
Variability in the interpretation of mammograms. (1995) (12)
Repeated observation of an uncertain signal (1978) (10)
Combining evidence from multiple imaging modalities: a feature-analysis method. (1992) (9)
Repeated observation of an uncertain signal. (1977) (9)
Signal detection theory (2014) (8)
FURTHER EXPERIMENTS ON COMPUTER-AIDED LEARNING OF SOUND IDENTIFICATION. TECHN REP NAVTRADEVCEN 789-2. (1964) (7)
The Observer's Use of Perceptual Dimensions in Signal Identification. (1979) (7)
Use of Probability Estimates in Medical Communications and Decisions (1986) (6)
Editorial Comments and Response (1985) (5)
Information Processing Models and Computer Aids for Human Performance. (1970) (5)
Factors Affecting the Slope of Empirical ROC Curves (1966) (5)
The ABC's of BBN: from acoustics to behavioral sciences to computers (2005) (5)
Learning to Identify Nonverbal Sounds (1961) (4)
Assessing diagnostic technologies. (1980) (4)
Design and Evaluation Issues in an Experiment on Teaching Thinking Skills (1988) (4)
Information Retrieval Methods (2014) (3)
CHAPTER 4 – Statistical Treatment of Accuracy Results (1982) (3)
On searching films and begging the question. (1985) (3)
Identification and Scaling of Complex Visual Patterns. (1977) (3)
System Operator Response to Warnings of Danger (2014) (2)
CHAPTER 11 – Illustrative Evaluation of Imaging Systems (1982) (2)
Applications of research on human decision making (1970) (2)
Introduction to Experimental Methods (1982) (2)
Increasing the Accuracy of Mammogram Interpretation (1995) (2)
Signal Detection with a Fixed Sample of Masking Noise (1967) (2)
Signal Detection Theory, History of (2001) (2)
CHAPTER 5 – Forms of Efficacy Analysis (1982) (1)
Human Repsonse to Sonic Booms: A Research Program Plan (1970) (1)
Experimental Psychology: Fechner's Great Work (1966) (1)
Stimulus and Response Theories of Signal Uncertainty (1959) (1)
Signal Uncertainty in the Multiple‐Observation Detection Task (1967) (1)
Psychophysical application of the theory of signal detectabilty (1953) (1)
Searching Films: One Model Does Not a Method Make (1985) (1)
CHAPTER 3 – Statistical Design of a Performance Test (1982) (1)
Further Experiments on Learning to Identify Nonverbal Sounds (1963) (1)
CHAPTER 2 – Extensions of Accuracy Analysis (1982) (1)
THE SOCRATIC SYSTEM: A COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATED INSTRUCTION. (1963) (1)
THE SOCRATIC SYSTEM: A COMPUTER SYSTEM TO AID IN TEACHING COMPLEX CONCEPTS, (1963) (1)
Sound learning (1961) (0)
Repeated observation of an uncertain signal. [sensory adaptation] (1978) (0)
The C3-System User. Volume 1. A Review of Research on Human Performance as It Relates to the Design and Operation of Command, Control and Communication Systems (1977) (0)
The C3-System User. Volume II. Workshop Notes (1977) (0)
Comment rationaliser les décisions (2000) (0)
Multidimensional Perceptual Spaces: Similarity Judgment and Identification (2017) (0)
CHAPTER 6 – Elements of Study Design (1982) (0)
Introduction to Quantitative Methods (1982) (0)
Temporal Factors in Sonar Target Classification. Theoretical and Experimental Analysis. (1979) (0)
J. C. R. Licklider as computer scientist (1991) (0)
On Sequential Decisions by Human Observers in a Signal Detection Problem (1958) (0)
Introduction to A Methodological Case Study (1982) (0)
I was the PSPI Canary (2001) (0)
CHAPTER 10 – Selection of Test Readers (1982) (0)
CHAPTER 8 – Drawing the Original Case Sample (1982) (0)
From Essays to Textbook. (1980) (0)
Math-based aids for making decisions in medicine and industry could improve many diagnoses — often saving lives in the process Better DECISIONS through SCIENCE (2000) (0)
PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE: The First 5 Years (1994) (0)
Experiments with Com- puter-Controlled Dis- plays in Second-Lan- guage Learning (1972) (0)
Analysis of Sequential Decisions (1959) (0)
CHAPTER 7 – Procedure of a Performance Test (1982) (0)
Effect of Multiple Observations on the Detectability of Signals in Noise (1957) (0)
CHAPTER 9 – Selection of Test Cases (1982) (0)

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