ArticlePloS one2017
Perceptual training to improve hip fracture identification in conventional radiographs.
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- The joint effect of feedback order and reward schemes on prevalence-induced perceptual decisions.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Diagnostic Accuracy of Artificial Intelligence-Based Algorithms in Automated Detection of Neck of Femur Fracture on a Plain Radiograph: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Indian journal of orthopaedics · 2024Review
- Evaluating the effectiveness of different perceptual training methods in a difficult visual discrimination task with ultrasound images.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2023Article
- Multiple expressions of "expert" abnormality gist in novices following perceptual learning.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2023Article
- Instructional Strategies to Enhance Dermoscopic Image Interpretation Education: a Review of the Literature.Dermatology practical & conceptual · 2022Review
- Characteristics of expert search behavior in volumetric medical image interpretation.Journal of medical imaging (Bellingham, Wash.) · 2021Article
- Training focal lung pathology detection using an eye movement modeling example.Journal of medical imaging (Bellingham, Wash.) · 2021Article
- What do radiologists look for? Advances and limitations of perceptual learning in radiologic search.Journal of vision · 2020Review
- Perceptual Learning of Appendicitis Diagnosis in Radiological Images.Journal of vision · 2020Article
- Perceptual learning in the identification of lung cancer in chest radiographs.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
- Analysis of Perceptual Expertise in Radiology - Current Knowledge and a New Perspective.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2019Review
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Abstract
Diagnosing certain fractures in conventional radiographs can be a difficult task, usually taking years to master. Typically, students are trained ad-hoc, in a primarily-rule based fashion. Our study investigated whether students can more rapidly learn to diagnose proximal neck of femur fractures via perceptual training, without having to learn an explicit set of rules. One hundred and thirty-nine students with no prior medical or radiology training were shown a sequence of plain film X-ray images of the right hip and for each image were asked to indicate whether a fracture was present. Students were told if they were correct and the location of any fracture, if present. No other feedback was given. The more able students achieved the same level of accuracy as board certified radiologists at identifying hip fractures in less than an hour of training. Surprisingly, perceptual learning was reduced when the training set was constructed to over-represent the types of images participants found more difficult to categorise. Conversely, repeating training images did not reduce post-training performance relative to showing an equivalent number of unique images. Perceptual training is an effective way of helping novices learn to identify hip fractures in X-ray images and should supplement the current education programme for students.
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