We report a study that investigated whether experienced and inexperienced radiographers benefit from knowing
where another person looked during pulmonary nodule detection. Twenty-four undergraduate radiographers (1 year
of experience) and 24 postgraduate radiographers (5+ years of experience) searched 42 chest x-rays for nodules and
rated how confident they were in their decisions. Eye movements were also recorded. Performance was compared
across three within-participant conditions: (1) free search - where radiographers could identify nodules as normal;
(2) image preview - where radiographers were first shown each chest x-ray for 20 seconds before they could then
proceed to mark the location of any nodules; and (3) eye movement preview - which was identical to image preview
except that the 20 second viewing period displayed an overlay of the real-time eye movements of another
radiographer's scanpath for that image. For this preview condition half of each group were shown where a novice
radiographer looked, and the other half were shown where an experienced radiologist looked. This was not made
known to the participants until after the experiment. Performance was assessed using JAFROC analysis. Both groups
of radiographers performed better in the eye movement preview condition compared with the image preview or free
search conditions, with inexperienced radiographers improving the most. We discuss our findings in terms of the
task-specific information interpreted from eye movement previews, task difficulty across images, and whether it
matters if radiographers are previewing the eye movements of an expert or a novice.
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