Radiologists must classify and interpret medical images on the basis of visual inspection.
We examined how the perception of radiological scans might be affected by common …

We examined how visual sensitivity and perception are affected by adaptation to the
characteristic amplitude spectra of X-ray mammography images. Because of the …

Purpose Radiologists and other image readers spend prolonged periods inspecting medical
images. The visual system can rapidly adapt or adjust sensitivity to the images that an …

Radiologists face the visually challenging task of detecting suspicious features within the
complex and noisy backgrounds characteristic of medical images. We used a search task to …

In November 1994 the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Cancer Institute, and
Conjoint Committee on Diagnostic Radiology sponsored the Conference on Developing a …

Introduction Radiologists routinely make life-altering decisions. Optimizing these decisions
has been an important goal for many years and has prompted a great deal of research on …

The goal of this research was to understand the influence of experience on how radiologists
search medical images for lesions and how search is affected by providing computer-aided …

The main focus of this paper is on the extent to which radiological expertise is based on low-
level perceptual processes. Experiment 1 showed that naive observers can perform well …

Of the five human senses, vision may be the least understood. How we detect visual signals
and how we recognize what we see are poorly characterized processes. Even less well …

The goal of this paper is to provide the reader with an introduction to the importance of
perception research in medical imaging. It is well known that radiologists' performance is not …