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David J. Getty
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Selected Publications

Getty DJ: Discrimination of short temporal intervals: A comparison of two models. Percept. & Psychophy. 18: 1-8, 1975.

Getty DJ: Counting processes in human timing. Percept. & Psychophy. 20: 191-197, 1976.

Swets JA, Green DM, Getty DJ, Swets JB: Identification and scaling of complex visual patterns. Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc. Technical Report 3536, 1977.

Swets JA, Green DM, Getty DJ, Swets JB: Signal detection and identification at successive stages of observation. Percept. & Psychophy. 23: 275-289, 1978.

Swets JA, Pickett RM, Whitehead SF, Getty DJ, Schnur JA, Swets JB, Freeman BA: Accuracy of computed tomography and radionuclide scanning in detection and diagnosis of intracranial lesions: Application of a general protocol for evaluation of imaging techniques in clinical medicine. Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc. Technical Report 3818, 1978.

Stevens A, Getty DJ, Kuipers B, Steinberg C: Studies of human spatial information processing. Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc. Technical Report 7885, 1978.

Getty DJ, Swets JA, Swets JB, Green DM: On the prediction of confusion matrices from similarity judgments. Percept. & Psychophy. 26: 1-19, 1979.

Swets JA, Pickett RM, Whitehead SF, Getty DJ, Schnur JA, Swets JB, Freeman BA: Assessment of diagnostic technologies, Science, 205: 753-759, 1979.

Getty DJ, Swets JA: Identification of confusable curvilinear shapes: Prediction of individual confusion matrices. Paper presented at the 20th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Phoenix, Arizona, November 1979.

Getty DJ, Swets JA: Perceptual dimensions: Similarity and identification. Paper presented at the 22nd International Congress of Psychology, Leipzig, East Germany, July 1980.

Published in H-G Geissler and P Petzold (eds.), Psychophysical Judgment and the Process of Perception, Berlin: VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, 1982; and Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Co., 1982, 239-252.

Getty DJ: Multidimensional perceptual space: A basis for judgments of similarity and identity. Paper presented at the Fechner Day Conference, New York University, NY: October 1980.

Getty DJ, Swets JB, Swets JA: The observer's use of perceptual dimensions in signal identification. In RS Nickerson (ed.) Attention and Performance VIII. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1980.

Getty DJ, Swets JA, Swets JB: Perceptual spaces revealed by multidimensional scaling procedures. In DJ Getty, JH Howard Jr. (eds.), Auditory and Visual Pattern Recognition. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1981.

Getty DJ, Howard JH Jr. (eds.): Auditory and Visual Pattern Recognition. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1981.

Huggins AWF, Getty DJ: Display-control compatibility in 3-D displays. In DJ Getty (ed.), 3-D Displays: Perceptual Research and Applications to Military Systems. Report of the National Academy of Sciences (Committee on Human Factors), 1982; available as Ms. 2570, Select Press, San Rafael, CA.

Getty DJ (ed.): 3-Displays: Perceptual Research and Applications to Military Systems. Report of the National Academy of Sciences (Committee on Human Factors), 1982; available as Ms. 2570, Select Press, San Rafael, CA.

Getty DJ: Perception of orientation and direction in 3-D displays. Invited presentation at the Statistical Image Processing and Graphics Workshop, Luray, VA, May 1983.

Getty DJ: Volumetric 3-D displays and perception. Invited presentation at the symposium, Journeys Into Higher Dimensions: Graphics in Mathematics, Statistics, and Perception, held at the Meetings of the AAA, May 1984.

Getty DJ, Huggins AWF: Volumetric 3-D displays and spatial perception. In EJ Wegman and DJ DePriest (eds.). Statistical Image Processing and Graphics. NY: Marcel-Dekker, 1986.

Getty DJ, Pickett RM, D'Orsi CJ, Swets JA: Enhanced interpretation of diagnostic images. Invest. Radiol., 23(4): 240-252, 1988.

Swets JA, Hernstein RJ, Nickerson RS, Getty DJ: Design and evaluation issues in an experiment on teaching thinking skills. Amer. Psychol., 43(7), 602-604, 1988.

Getty DJ, Pickett RM, Chylack LT, Jr., McCarthy DF, Huggins AWF: An enriched set of features of nuclear cataract identified by multidimensional scaling. Current Eye Research, 8(1):1-8, 1988.

Seltzer SE, McNeil BJ, D'Orsi CJ, Getty DJ, Pickett RM, Swets JA: Feature analysis in medical imaging. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of University Radiologists, March 1991.

Swets JA, Getty, DJ, Pickett, RM, D'Orsi, CJ, Seltzer, SE, McNeil, BJ: Enhancing and evaluating diagnostic accuracy. Medical Decision Making, 11(1): 9-18, 1991.

D'Orsi CJ, Getty DJ, Swets JA, Pickett RM, Seltzer SE, McNeil BJ: Reading and decision aids for improved accuracy and standardization of mammographic diagnosis. Radiology, 184: 619-622, 1992.

Seltzer SE, McNeil BJ, D'Orsi CJ, Getty DJ, Pickett RM, Swets JA: Combining evidence from multiple imaging modalities: A feature-analysis method. Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, 16(6): 373-380, 1992.

Getty DJ, Swets JA, Pickett RM, Gonthier D: System operator response to warnings of danger: A laboratory investigation of the effects of the predictive value of a warning on human response time. J. Exper. Psychol.: Applied, 1(1):19-33, 1995.

Getty, DJ: Assisting the radiologist to greater accuracy. In SPIE Medical Imaging 1996: Physics of Medical Imaging, RL Van Metter and J. Beutel (Eds.), 2708, 2-15, 1996.

Seltzer SE, Getty DJ, Tempany CMC, Pickett RM, Schnall MD, McNeil BJ and Swets JA: Staging prostate cancer with MR imaging: a combined radiologist-computer system. Radiology, 202, 219-226, 1997.

Getty DJ, Seltzer SE, Tempany CMC, Pickett RM, Swets JA and McNeil BJ: Prostate cancer: Relative effects of demographic, clinical, histologic, and MR imaging variables on the accuracy of staging. Radiology, 204, 471-479, 1997.

MacMillan J, Getty DJ, Tatum BC and Ropp, GA. Visual metaphors and mental models in display design—a method for comparing intangibles. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 1997.

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