Lou, Jianxun, Wang, Huasheng, Wu, Xinbo, Cho Hui Ng, John, White, Richard, Thakoor, Kaveri A., Corcoran, Padraig  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9731-3385, Chen, Ying and Liu, Hantao ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4544-3481
2025.
Chest X-ray visual saliency modeling: eye-tracking dataset and saliency prediction model.
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
10.1109/tnnls.2025.3564292
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Abstract
Radiologists’ eye movements during medical image interpretation reflect their perceptual-cognitive processes of diagnostic decisions. The eye movement data can be modeled to represent clinically relevant regions in a medical image and potentially integrated into an artificial intelligence (AI) system for automatic diagnosis in medical imaging. In this article, we first conduct a large-scale eye-tracking study involving 13 radiologists interpreting 191 chest X-ray (CXR) images, establishing a best-of-its-kind CXR visual saliency benchmark. We then perform analysis to quantify the reliability and clinical relevance of saliency maps (SMs) generated for CXR images. We develop CXR image saliency prediction method (CXRSalNet), a novel saliency prediction model that leverages radiologists’ gaze information to optimize the use of unlabeled CXR images, enhancing training and mitigating data scarcity. We also demonstrate the application of our CXR saliency model in enhancing the performance of AI-powered diagnostic imaging systems.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Date Type: | Published Online |
| Status: | In Press |
| Schools: | Schools > Computer Science & Informatics |
| Additional Information: | License information from Publisher: LICENSE 1: URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplorehelp/downloads/license-information/IEEE.html, Start Date: 2025-01-01 |
| Publisher: | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
| ISSN: | 2162-237X |
| Last Modified: | 04 Jun 2025 08:45 |
| URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/178735 |
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