Study of saccadic eye movements in diagnostic imaging

Lou, Jianxun, Zhao, Xin, Young, Philippa, White, Richard and Liu, Hantao ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4544-3481 2021. Study of saccadic eye movements in diagnostic imaging. Presented at: 2021 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Anchorage, AK, USA, 19-22 September 2021. 2021 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP). IEEE, pp. 1474-1478. 10.1109/ICIP42928.2021.9506017

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Abstract

Eye movements reflect the visual process of humans’ perception and cognition. In the field of medical imaging, the diagnosis rendered by radiologists is closely related to their eye movements when reading radiological images. It is beneficial to study the eye movements of radiologists to improve the diagnostic performance. However, existing studies are mainly focused on the radiologists’ fixations but rarely on their saccade patterns. Moreover, these studies are almost based on limited datasets. In this paper, we present a quantitative study of the gaze behavior of radiologists from the perspective of saccade patterns on a large-scale dataset. The dataset comprises of the eye-tracking data of 10 expert radiologists reading 196 mammograms. By analyzing the saccade amplitude, direction, and bias of radiologists, we found that radiologists have specific saccade patterns in image reading and the saccade patterns are significantly affected by the different reading phases, working experience, and orientations of the mammograms.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	Published
Schools:	Computer Science & Informatics
Publisher:	IEEE
ISBN:	9781665431026
ISSN:	2381-8549
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	6 July 2021
Date of Acceptance:	20 May 2021
Last Modified:	05 Nov 2022 02:06
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/142441

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