Conference proceeding
Effect of mammographic breast density on radiologists' visual search pattern
Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE, Vol.9037, pp.903703-903703-9
03/11/2014
DOI: 10.1117/12.2043211
Abstract
This study investigates the impact of breast density on visual searching pattern. A set of 74 one-view malignancy containing mammographic images were examined by 7 radiologists. Eye position was recorded and visual search parameters such as total time examining a case, time to hit the lesion, dwell time and number of hits per area were collected. Fixations were calculated in 3 areas of interests: background breast parenchyma, dense areas of parenchyma and lesion. Significant increases in dwell time and number of hits in dense areas of parenchyma were noted for highcompared to low- mammographic density images when the lesion overlay the fibroglandular tissue (p<0.01). When the lesion was outside the fibroglandular tissue, significant increase in dwell time and number of hits in dense areas of parenchyma in high- compared to low- mammographic density images were observed (p<0.01). No significant differences have been found in total time examining a case, time to first fixate the lesion, dwell time and number of hits in background breast parenchyma and lesion areas. In conclusion, our data suggests that dense areas of breast parenchyma attract radiologists’ visual attention. Lesions overlaying the fibroglandular tissue were detected faster, therefore lesion location, whether overlaying or outside the fibroglandular tissue, appeared to have an impact on radiologists' visual searching pattern.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Effect of mammographic breast density on radiologists' visual search pattern
- Creators
- Dana S Al Mousa - The Univ. of Sydney (Australia)Patrick C Brennan - The Univ. of Sydney (Australia)Elaine A Ryan - The Univ. of Sydney (Australia)Warwick B Lee - Cancer Institute NSW (Australia)Mariusz W Pietrzyk - The Univ. of Sydney (Australia)Warren M Reed - The Univ. of Sydney (Australia)Maram M Alakhras - The Univ. of Sydney (Australia)Yanpeng Li - The Univ. of Sydney (Australia)Claudia Mello-Thoms - The Univ. of Sydney (Australia)
- Contributors
- Claudia R Mello-Thoms (Editor) - The Univ. of Sydney (Australia)Matthew A Kupinski (Editor) - College of Optical Sciences, The Univ. of Arizona (United States)
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Publication Details
- Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE, Vol.9037, pp.903703-903703-9
- Publisher
- SPIE
- DOI
- 10.1117/12.2043211
- ISSN
- 1605-7422
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/11/2014
- Academic Unit
- Roy J. Carver Department of Biomedical Engineering; Radiology
- Record Identifier
- 9984051501402771
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