Task-specific information in x-ray diffraction and transmission modalities: a comparative analysis

Yijun Ding; David Coccarelli; Ava Hurlock; Joel A. Greenberg; Michael Gehm; Amit Ashok

doi:10.1117/12.2558267

1 June 2020 Task-specific information in x-ray diffraction and transmission modalities: a comparative analysis

Yijun Ding, David Coccarelli, Ava Hurlock, Joel A. Greenberg, Michael Gehm, Amit Ashok

Proceedings Volume 11404, Anomaly Detection and Imaging with X-Rays (ADIX) V; 114040H (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2558267
Event: SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing, 2020, Online Only

Abstract

We develop a framework to analyze the information content of X-ray measurement data for the task of material discrimination. This task-specific information (TSI) analysis provides valuable information for system design and optimization. We employ Bhattacharyya distance (BD) between measurements of different materials as the TSI metric in our analysis framework, because BD is closely related to the bounds on the probability of error (P_e). We apply this framework to compare an X-ray diffraction-based system with an X-ray attenuation-based system for several materials and different detector geometries.

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Yijun Ding, David Coccarelli, Ava Hurlock, Joel A. Greenberg, Michael Gehm, and Amit Ashok "Task-specific information in x-ray diffraction and transmission modalities: a comparative analysis", Proc. SPIE 11404, Anomaly Detection and Imaging with X-Rays (ADIX) V, 114040H (1 June 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2558267

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