Medical Image Perception Society 2009 - Day one

The first day of the Medical Image Perception Society conference, held biannual, this year in Santa Barbara was filled with interesting talks. Plenty of research utilizing eye tracking as a means of obtaining data. The conference is hosted by Craig Abbey and Miguel Eckstein at the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara in cooperation with Elizabeth Krupinski (book1 , book2) from University of Arizona whom has performed extensive research on eye movements (among other things) in relation to medical imaging and radiology.

Session 1. Visual Search. Chair: Claudia Mello-Thoms, PhD

• Seeing trouble in a flash: Discrimination of normal from abnormal mammograms with brief exposure. KK Evans (current), D Georgian-Smith, R Birdwell, & JM Wolfe

• Mapping Eye Movements in Three-Dimensions: Analyzing Gaze Paths when Interpreting Volumetric Chest CT Data. M Tall, DL Ly, F Schmitzberger, D Rasooly, TJ Kim, JE Roos, DS Paik, S Napel, & GD Rubin

• Measuring Axial CTC Interaction. P Phillips

• Using eye-tracking to study diagnostic process during MRI scanning. C Cavaro-Ménard, J-Y Tanguy, & P Le Callet

Session 2. Visual Search. Chair: Elizabeth Krupinski, PhD

• Visual Search Characteristics of Pathology Residents Reading Dermatopathology Slides. J Law & C Mello-Thoms

• Are you a good eye-witness? Perceptual differences between physicians and lay people. C Mello-Thoms

• Eye movements and computer-based mammographic interpretation training. Y Chen & A Gale

Session 3. Perceptual Effects. Chair: David Manning, PhD

• Nuisance levels of noise effects Radiologists Performance. MF Mc Entee, A O'Beirne, J Ryan, R Toomey, M Evanoff, D Chakraborty, D Manning, & PC. Brennan

• Observer Performance in Stroke Interpretation: The Influence of Experience and Clinical Information in Multidimensional Magnetic Resonance Imaging. L Cooper, A Gale, J Saada, S Gedela, H Scott, & A Toms

• Interpretation of wrist radiographs: A comparison between final year medical and radiography students. L Hutchinson, P Brennan & L Rainford

• Tumor measurement for revised TNM staging of lung cancer. FL Jacobson, A Sitek, D Getty, & SE Seltzer

• Does Reader Visual Fatigue Impact Performance? EA Krupinski & KS Berbaum

• Ambient Temperature is an Important Consideration in the Radiology Reading Room. MF Mc Entee & S Gafoor

Session 4. Performance Measurement I. Chair: Dev Chakraborty, PhD

• Perceptual indicators of the holistic view in pulmonary nodule detection. MW Pietrzyk, DJ Manning, T Donovan, & Alan Dix

• An e-learning tutorial demonstrates significant improvements in ROC performance amongst naive observers in breast image interpretation. PBL Soh, PC Brennan, A Poulos, W Reed

• Is n ROC-type response Truly always better than A Binary Response? D Gur, AI Bandos, HE Rockette, ML Zuley, CM Hakim, DM Chough, MA Ganott

• Recognition of Images in Reader Studies: How Well Can We Predict Which Will Be Remembered? T Miner Haygood, P O’Sullivan, J Ryan, E Galvan, J-M Yamal, M Evanoff, M McEntee, J Madewell, C Sandler, E Lano, & P Brennan

Session 5. Performance Measurement I. Chair: Alastair Gale, PhD

• New classes of models with monotonic likelihood ratios. F Samuelson

• Sample size estimation procedure for free-response (FROC) studies. DP Chakraborty & M Bath

• Comparison of Four Methods (ROC, JAFROC, IDCA, and ROI) for Analysis of Free Response Clinical Data. F Zanca, DP Chakraborty, J Jacobs, G. Marchal, and H Bosmans

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