ArticleCognitive research: principles and implications2021
Serial dependence in the perceptual judgments of radiologists.
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- Serial dependence in visual perception: A meta-analysis and review.Journal of vision · 2023Pooled it
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- Attractive and repulsive serial dependence: The role of task relevance, the passage of time, and the number of stimuli.Journal of vision · 2023Article
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- Serial dependence in emotion perception mirrors the autocorrelations in natural emotion statistics.Journal of vision · 2023Article
- Visual adaptation to medical images: a comparison of digital mammography and tomosynthesis.Journal of medical imaging (Bellingham, Wash.) · 2023Article
- How one block of trials influences the next: persistent effects of disease prevalence and feedback on decisions about images of skin lesions in a large online study.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2022Article
- Idiosyncratic biases in the perception of medical images.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
In radiological screening, clinicians scan myriads of radiographs with the intent of recognizing and differentiating lesions. Even though they are trained experts, radiologists' human search engines are not perfect: average daily error rates are estimated around 3-5%. A main underlying assumption in radiological screening is that visual search on a current radiograph occurs independently of previously seen radiographs. However, recent studies have shown that human perception is biased by previously seen stimuli; the bias in our visual system to misperceive current stimuli towards previous stimuli is called serial dependence. Here, we tested whether serial dependence impacts radiologists' recognition of simulated lesions embedded in actual radiographs. We found that serial dependence affected radiologists' recognition of simulated lesions; perception on an average trial was pulled 13% toward the 1-back stimulus. Simulated lesions were perceived as biased towards the those seen in the previous 1 or 2 radiographs. Similar results were found when testing lesion recognition in a group of untrained observers. Taken together, these results suggest that perceptual judgements of radiologists are affected by previous visual experience, and thus some of the diagnostic errors exhibited by radiologists may be caused by serial dependence from previously seen radiographs.
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