The effects of ambient lighting in chest radiology reading rooms

Journal of Digital Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 520-526

  Pollard, Benjamin J ^a   Samei, Ehsan ^a   Chawla, Amarpreet S ^b   Beam, Craig ^c   Heyneman, Laura E ^b   Koweek, Lynne M Hurwitz ^b   Martinez Jimenez, Santiago ^b   Washington, Lacey ^b   Hashimoto, Noriyuki ^d   McAdams, H Page ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^d Eizo Nanao Technologies Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Chest radiographs; Image perception; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT LIGHTING; AREA UNDER ROC CURVE (AUC); CHEST RADIOGRAPHS; CHEST RADIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC PERFORMANCE; FALSE POSITIVE; IMAGE PERCEPTION; NODULE DETECTION; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC ANALYSIS; SELECTION TIME; TRUE POSITIVE; VISUAL ADJUSTMENTS; VISUAL FATIGUE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

DEGRADATION; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS; LUMINANCE; RADIATION; RADIOLOGY;

LIGHTING;

AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; HUMAN; ILLUMINATION; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LUNG; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VISION;

AREA UNDER CURVE; DATA DISPLAY; HUMANS; LIGHTING; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84865393973     PISSN: 08971889     EISSN: 1618727X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10278-012-9459-5     Document Type: Article

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