When
Stephen Adamo, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Cognition & Neural Systems
University of Arizona
Zoom: https://arizona.zoom.us/j/89271128443
From Theory to Applied:
Utilizing psychophysics research to better understand how radiologists interpret medical images
Abstract: Visual search, the act of looking amongst distractors, can be as mundane as looking for keys on a cluttered desk or as severe as looking for signs of cancer in a medical image. Unfortunately, visual search can be quite error-prone, which is problematic in critical real-world searches such as those performed by baggage screeners and radiologists. One visual search pitfall known to cause errors is the subsequent search miss (SSM) effect—observers are prone to miss a second target after a first target is detected.In my talk, I will discuss my research on the SSM effect from a theoretical perspective and its application to breast cancer detection in radiology.