Artificial Intelligence for the Analysis of Workload-Related Changes in Radiologists' Gaze Patterns

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  • Ilya Pershin
  • Maksim Kholiavchenko
  • Bulat Maksudov
  • Tamerlan Mustafaev
  • Dilyara Ibragimova
  • Ibragimov, Bulat

Around 60-80% of radiological errors are attributed to overlooked abnormalities, the rate of which increases at the end of work shifts. In this study, we run an experiment to investigate if artificial intelligence (AI) can assist in detecting radiologists' gaze patterns that correlate with fatigue. A retrospective database of lung X-ray images with the reference diagnoses was used. The X-ray images were acquired from 400 subjects with a mean age of 49 ± 17, and 61% men. Four practicing radiologists read these images while their eye movements were recorded. The radiologists passed a series of concentration tests at prearranged breaks of the experiment. A U-Net neural network was adapted to annotate lung anatomy on X-rays and calculate coverage and information gain features from the radiologists' eye movements over lung fields. The lung coverage, information gain, and eye tracker-based features were compared with the cumulative work done (CDW) label for each radiologist. The gaze-traveled distance, X-ray coverage, and lung coverage statistically significantly (p < 0.01) deteriorated with cumulative work done (CWD) for three out of four radiologists. The reading time and information gain over lungs statistically significantly deteriorated for all four radiologists. We discovered a novel AI-based metric blending reading time, speed, and organ coverage, which can be used to predict changes in the fatigue-related image reading patterns.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftIEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
Vol/bind26
Udgave nummer9
Sider (fra-til)4541-4550
ISSN2168-2194
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2022

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Funding Information:
This work was supported by Russian Science Foundation under Grant 18-71-10072 and the Novo Nordisk Foundation under Grant NNF20OC0062056.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2013 IEEE.

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