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Individual differences in perceptual abilities in medical imaging: the Vanderbilt Chest Radiograph Test

Overview of attention for article published in Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, September 2017
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Title
Individual differences in perceptual abilities in medical imaging: the Vanderbilt Chest Radiograph Test
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Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, September 2017
DOI 10.1186/s41235-017-0073-4
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Mackenzie A. Sunday, Edwin Donnelly, Isabel Gauthier

Abstract

Radiologists make many important decisions when detecting nodules on chest radiographs. While training can result in high levels of performance of this task, there could be individual differences in relevant perceptual abilities that are present pre-training. A pre-requisite to address this question is a valid and reliable measure of such abilities. The present work introduces a new measure, the Vanderbilt Chest Radiograph Test (VCRT), which aims to quantify individual differences in perceptual abilities for radiograph-related decision-making in novices. We validate the relevance of the test to diagnostic imaging by verifying radiologists' superior performance on the test compared to novices'. The final VCRT version produces scores with acceptable internal consistency. Then, we investigate how the VCRT can be used in future research by evaluating how the test relates to extant measures of face and object recognition ability. We find that the VCRT shares a small but significant portion of its variance with a measure of novel object recognition, suggesting that some aspect of VCRT performance is driven by a domain-general visual ability.

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Unknown 29 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 17%
Student > Bachelor 4 14%
Professor 3 10%
Student > Master 3 10%
Student > Postgraduate 2 7%
Other 5 17%
Unknown 7 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 13 45%
Medicine and Dentistry 2 7%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 3%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 3%
Decision Sciences 1 3%
Other 3 10%
Unknown 8 28%
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