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11 March 2014 Visual search from lab to clinic and back
Jeremy M. Wolfe
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Proceedings Volume 9037, Medical Imaging 2014: Image Perception, Observer Performance, and Technology Assessment; 903702 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2048767
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2014, San Diego, California, United States
Abstract
Many of the tasks of medical image perception can be understood as demanding visual search tasks (especially if you happen to be a visual search researcher). Basic research on visual search can tell us quite a lot about how medical image search tasks proceed because even experts have to use the human “search engine” with all its limitations. Humans can only deploy attention to one or a very few items at any one time. Human search is “guided” search. Humans deploy their attention to likely target objects on the basis of the basic visual features of object and on the basis of an understanding of the scene containing those objects. This guidance operates in medical images as well as in the mundane scenes of everyday life. The paper reviews some of the dialogue between medical image perception by experts and visual search as studied in the laboratory.
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Jeremy M. Wolfe "Visual search from lab to clinic and back", Proc. SPIE 9037, Medical Imaging 2014: Image Perception, Observer Performance, and Technology Assessment, 903702 (11 March 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2048767
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KEYWORDS
Visualization
Medical imaging
Computer aided diagnosis and therapy
Lung
Breast cancer
Cancer
Eye
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