Conference proceeding
A cognitive approach to determine the benefits of pairing radiologists in mammogram reading
Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE, Vol.10577, pp.1057704-1057704-9
03/07/2018
DOI: 10.1117/12.2293364
Abstract
Mammography screening in Europe and Australia is carried out by having two radiologists
independently read the case and determine whether an actionable finding is present. If they
disagree, a third radiologist – the arbitrator – reads the case and offers the final opinion. Currently
radiologists are picked for the pair based on scheduling convenience, with no thought being given
to whether a given pair of radiologists should really be put together to read cases. In the past
research has shown that breast radiologists tend to commit the same mistakes time and again and
incline to search mammograms in a particular way; hence, pairing two radiologists that tend to
search a mammogram in an almost similar manner, for example, may not be such a good idea. In
this study, we used eye position tracking to determine how radiologists searched a given set of
cases. Using different cognitive models we paired the radiologists and determined the effect of the
pairing on the radiologist’s performance using the Receivers Operating Characteristic Area Under
the Curve (ROC AUC). Our results suggest that some pairings are detrimental to performance and
should not be put together.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- A cognitive approach to determine the benefits of pairing radiologists in mammogram reading
- Creators
- Ziba Gandomkar - The Univ. of Sydney (Australia)Patrick C Brennan - The Univ. of Sydney (Australia)Claudia Mello-Thoms - The Univ. of Sydney (Australia)
- Contributors
- Robert M Nishikawa (Editor) - Univ. of Pittsburgh (United States)Frank W Samuelson (Editor) - U.S. Food and Drug Administration (United States)
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Publication Details
- Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE, Vol.10577, pp.1057704-1057704-9
- Publisher
- SPIE
- DOI
- 10.1117/12.2293364
- ISSN
- 1605-7422
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/07/2018
- Academic Unit
- Roy J. Carver Department of Biomedical Engineering; Radiology
- Record Identifier
- 9984051994002771
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