ArticleCognitive research: principles and implications2017
How did I miss that? Developing mixed hybrid visual search as a 'model system' for incidental finding errors in radiology.
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- Graded prioritisation of targets in search: reward diminishes the low prevalence effect.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2023Article
- Normal blindness: when we Look But Fail To See.Trends in cognitive sciences · 2022Review
- Prior experience with target encounter affects attention allocation and prospective memory performance.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2022Article
- The Manifestation of Incidental Findings in Different Experimental Visual Search Paradigms.Psychology in Russia : state of the art · 2022Article
- From "satisfaction of search" to "subsequent search misses": a review of multiple-target search errors across radiology and cognitive science.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2021Review
- Using change detection to objectively evaluate whether novel over-the-counter drug labels can increase attention to critical health information among older adults.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2021Article
- The invisible breast cancer: Experience does not protect against inattentional blindness to clinically relevant findings in radiology.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2021Article
- X-change symposium: status and future of modern radiation oncology-from technology to biology.Radiation oncology (London, England) · 2021Review
- Visual search errors are persistent in a laboratory analog of the incidental finding problem.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2020Article
- What do we know about volumetric medical image interpretation?: a review of the basic science and medical image perception literatures.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2019Review
- Eye Movements in Medical Image Perception: A Selective Review of Past, Present and Future.Vision (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Review
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Abstract
In a real world search, it can be important to keep 'an eye out' for items of interest that are not the primary subject of the search. For instance, you might look for the exit sign on the freeway, but you should also respond to the armadillo crossing the road. In medicine, these items are known as "incidental findings," findings of possible clinical significance that were not the main object of search. These errors (e.g., missing a broken rib while looking for pneumonia) have medical consequences for the patient and potential legal consequences for the physician. Here we report three experiments intended to develop a 'model system' for incidental findings - a paradigm that could be used in the lab to develop strategies to reduce incidental finding errors in the clinic. All the experiments involve 'hybrid' visual search for any of several targets held in memory. In this 'mixed hybrid search task,' observers search for any of three specific targets (e.g., this rabbit, this truck, and this spoon) and three categorical targets (e.g., masks, furniture, and plants). The hypothesis is that the specific items are like the specific goals of a real world search and the categorical targets are like the less well-defined incidental findings that might be present and that should be reported. In all these experiments, varying target prevalence, number of targets, etc., the categorical targets are missed at a much higher rate than the specific targets. This paradigm shows promise as a model of the incidental finding problem.
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