Conference proceeding
Visual search characteristics in mammogram reading: SFM vs. FFDM
Proceedings of SPIE, Vol.7627(1), pp.76270D-76270D-8
Medical Imaging 2010: Image Perception, Observer Performance, and Technology Assessment
02/23/2010
DOI: 10.1117/12.844205
Abstract
Previous studies comparing radiologists' behavior when reading mammograms that were
'digitized' from screen-film mammography (SFM) films and 'digital' mammograms obtained through
the use of Full-Field Digital Mammography (FFDM) systems either showed a significant advantage
to FFDM (mostly when a double-reading strategy was used) or no difference in performance
between the two modalities (primarily when a single-reader strategy was used). The visual search
characteristics used by radiologists in the reading of 'digitized' mammograms have been previously
studied, but few perceptual studies have been carried out to characterize radiologists' behavior
when reading 'digital' mammograms. In this paper we will compare the perceptual features related
to the radiologists' reading of 'digital' mammograms with those related to the reading of 'digitized'
mammograms. In addition, we will use spatial frequency analysis to characterize such a behavior
and compare it to the one employed in the reading of 'digitized' mammograms.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Visual search characteristics in mammogram reading: SFM vs. FFDM
- Creators
- Claudia Mello-Thoms - University of Pittsburgh
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Publication Details
- Proceedings of SPIE, Vol.7627(1), pp.76270D-76270D-8
- Conference
- Medical Imaging 2010: Image Perception, Observer Performance, and Technology Assessment
- DOI
- 10.1117/12.844205
- ISSN
- 0277-786X
- eISSN
- 1996-756X
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 02/23/2010
- Academic Unit
- Roy J. Carver Department of Biomedical Engineering; Radiology
- Record Identifier
- 9984318712202771
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