A method to determine the impact of visual function on lesion detection performance

Thompson, J. D.; Lança, Carla; Lança, Luís; Hogg, Peter

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There are few professions in which visual acuity is as important as it is to radiologists. The diagnostic decision making process is composed of a number of events (detection or observation, interpretation and reporting), where the detection phase is subject to a number of physical and psychological phenomena that are critical to the process. Visual acuity is one phenomenon that has often been overlooked, and there is very little research assessing the impact of reduced visual acuity on diagnostic performance. The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of reduced visual acuity on an observer’s ability to detect simulated nodules in an anthropomorphic chest phantom.

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Radiology Lesion detection Visual function Visual acuity Performance

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http://hdl.handle.net/10400.21/6292

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Thompson JD, Lança CC, Lança L, Hogg P. A method to determine the impact of visual function on lesion detection performance. In: ECR 2016 – European Congress of Radiology, Vienna (Austria), 2-6 March 2016.