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How Do Radiologists Use the Human Search Engine?

Year: 2015

Type: review

Abstract: Radiologists perform many 'visual search tasks' in which they look for one or more instances of one or more types of target item in a medical image (e.g. cancer screening). To understand and improve how radiologists do such tasks, it must be understood how the human 'search engine' works. This article briefly reviews some of the relevant work into this aspect of medical image perception. Questions include how attention and the eyes are guided in radiologic search? How is global (image-wide) information used in search? How might properties of human vision and human cognition lead to errors in radiologic search?

Source: Radiation Protection Dosimetry

DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncv501

Authors: Jeremy M. Wolfe, Karla K. Evans, Trafton Drew, Avigael Aizenman, Emilie Josephs

Institutions: Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard University, University of York, University of Utah

Language: English

Topic: Radiology practices and education

Subfield: Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

Funders: National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research

Awards: SLC Center: CELEST: A Center for Learning in Education, Science, and Technology, G4091688915, G8795119938