Viewing another person's eye movements improves identification of pulmonary nodules in chest x-ray inspection

Litchfield, Damien, Ball, Linden, Donovan, Tim ORCID logo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4112-861X , Manning, David J. and Crawford, Trevor (2010) Viewing another person's eye movements improves identification of pulmonary nodules in chest x-ray inspection. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 16 (3). pp. 251-262. Full text not available from this repository.

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Abstract

Double reading of chest x-rays is often used to ensure that fewer abnormalities are missed, but very little is known about how the search behavior of others affects observer performance. A series of experiments investigated whether radiographers benefit from knowing where another person looked for pulmonary nodules, and whether the expertise of the model providing the search behavior was a contributing factor. Experiment 1 compared the diagnostic performance of novice and experienced radiographers examining chest x-rays and found that both groups performed better when shown the search behavior of either a novice radiographer or an expert radiologist. Experiment 2 established that benefits in performance only arose when the eye movements shown were related to the search for nodules; however, only the novices' diagnostic performance consistently improved when shown the expert's search behavior. Experiment 3 reexamined the contribution of task, image, and the expertise of the model underlying this benefit. Consistent with Experiment 1, novice radiographers were better at identifying nodules when shown either a naïve's search behavior or an expert radiologist's search behavior, but they demonstrated no improvement when shown a naïve model not searching for nodules. Our results suggest that although the benefits of this form of attentional guidance may be short-lived, novices can scaffold their decisions based on the search behavior of others.

Item Type: Article
Journal / Publication Title: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied
Publisher: American Psychological Association
ISSN: 1939-2192
Departments: Academic Departments > Medical & Sport Sciences (MSS) > Health and Medical Sciences
Depositing User: Insight Administrator
Date Deposited: 14 Oct 2011 12:42
Last Modified: 12 Jan 2024 09:31
URI: https://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/1027
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