How do radiologists do it? The influence of experience and training on searching for chest nodules

Radiography

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 134-142

  Manning, David ^a   Ethell, Susan ^a   Donovan, Tim ^a   Crawford, Trevor ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CUMBRIA   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

AFROC; Expert performance; Eye tracking; Fixation patterns; Pulmonary nodules

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EXPERIENCE; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOLOGIST; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STUDENT T TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; THORAX; TRAINING;

EID: 33645980358     PISSN: 10788174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radi.2005.02.003     Document Type: Article

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