Channelized hotelling observer performance for penalized-likelihood image reconstruction

What type of regularization method is optimal for penalized-likelihood image reconstruction when the imaging task is signal detection based on a channelized Hotelling (CHO) observer? To answer such questions, one would like to have a simple analytical expression (even if approximate) for the performance (SNR) of the CHO observer given different reconstruction methods. Bonetto, Qi, and Leahy (IEEE T-NS, Aug. 2000) derived and validated one such...