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Fixated and Not Fixated Regions of Mammograms

Rationale and Objectives

Visual search is an inhomogeneous yet efficient sampling process accomplished by the saccades and the central (foveal) vision. Areas that attract the central vision have been studied for errors in interpretation of medical imaging. In this study, we extend existing visual search studies to understand what characterizes areas that receive direct visual attention and elicit a mark by the radiologist (True and False Positive decisions) from those that elicit a mark but were captured by the peripheral vision. We also investigate if there are any differences between these areas and those that are never fixated by radiologists.

Materials and Methods

Eight radiologists participated in this fully crossed multi-reader multi-case visual search study of digital mammography (DM) involving 120 two-view cases (59 cancers). From these DM images, 3 types of areas, namely Fixated Clusters (FC), Marked Peripherally Fixated Clusters (MPFC) and Never Fixated Clusters (NFC), were extracted and analysed using statistical information theory (in the form of third and fourth-order cumulants and polyspectrum [specifically bispectrum and trispectrum]) in addition to traditional second-order statistics (in the form of power spectrum) and other nonspectral features to characterize these types of areas.

Results

Our results suggest that energy profiles of FC, MPFC, and NFC areas are distinct. We found evidence that energy profiles and dwell time of these areas influence radiologists’ decisions (and confidence in such decisions). We also noted that foveated areas are selected on the basis of being most informative.

Conclusion

We show that properties of these areas influence radiologists’ decisions and their confidence in the decisions made.

Introduction

Because of the large complexity of the world that surrounds us, and the impossibility of sampling it all with a high-resolution lens, the human visual system has evolved to apply inhomogeneous sampling to any given scene. In this system, high detail is supported in the central vision, the fovea centralis , and resolution decays rapidly as one moves toward the periphery (with visual acuity dropping by 50% at about 10° of visual angle ). To be able to avoid missing important information in the world, the eyes move in a ballistic fashion from one point to the next, in a process called saccades , reaching speeds of 700°/sec . This allows the deployment of the foveal vision to all parts of a given scene, and efficient sampling of data to be carried out. Although many aspects of this system are well understood (such as its timing parameters, motor control, etc ), the selection of the regions to which the foveal vision is deployed is still an active area of research. This is a critical problem not only for understanding human behavior but also for developing efficient and effective computer-based search strategies.

Moreover, in the human visual system, the visual stimuli of various spatial locations and orientations are processed by three different types of cortical cells—classified as simple, complex, and hypercomplex . Hypercomplex cells are known to process signals of different orientations and length and are considered of high order as opposed to simple cells that process signals linearly . To simulate the processing of hypercomplex cells, we aimed to perform high-order statistical analysis. Higher-order statistics can also reveal complex differences such as structural properties (eg, corners, junctions, curved lines, curved edges) of a region that cannot be described by properties such as luminance, contrast, or spatial variance (obtained through autocorrelation or power spectrum).

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Materials and Methods

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Study Design

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Study Protocol

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Data Processing

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Extraction of Regions of Interest

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Figure 1, A case overlaid with a radiologist's visual search map, including fixation clusters, locations marked as malignant, and true lesion location. The red star marking on the breast area indicates the location of a known malignancy; the blue square box containing a confidence score indicates the location identified as suspicious; the green asterisks indicate the fixation points of the radiologist wherein the number in yellow indicates the sequence of fixation points in temporal order; finally, the white circles indicate the region of fixation clusters as identified by our clustering algorithm. (Color version of figure is available online.)

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Figure 2, A radiologist's visual search map of a case that they correctly marked as true positive in both views. Here, the red star marking on the breast area indicates the location of a known malignancy; the blue square box containing a confidence score indicates the location identified as suspicious; the green asterisks indicate the fixation points of the radiologist wherein the number in yellow indicates the sequence of fixation points in temporal order; finally, the white circles indicate the region of fixation clusters as identified by our clustering algorithm. This is an example of MPFC because both the markings of the radiologist are outside FC regions but fall within peripheral vision. (Color version of figure is available online.)

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Figure 3, A case overlaid with all eight radiologists' visual search map—indicating areas (in the lower quadrants of both views) that were never fixated by any of the radiologists.

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Assignment of Decision Outcome to ROIs

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Background Suppression

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Figure 4, The workflow of background suppression algorithm.

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Data Analysis

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Feature Extraction

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Feature Analysis

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Figure 5, Workflow of analysis of features to determine their effect on decision outcome.

Figure 6, Comparison with three classes of ROIs (FC, MPFC, and NFC). FC, fixation cluster; MPFC, marked peripherally fixated cluster; NFC, never fixated cluster; ROI, region of interest.

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Results

Descriptive Statistics

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TABLE 2

Details of Number of ROIs (Fixated Clusters, Marked Peripherally Fixated Clusters, and Never Fixated Clusters) Obtained in this Study per Radiologist and for All Radiologists Combined

Radiologist/Feature Total Marks Total Number of Fixation Clusters Total Number of Fixated Clusters that were Marked Total Number of Marked Peripherally Fixated Clusters Number of Never Fixated Clusters Number of Views All radiologists (combined) 1508 10458 390 1196 240 240 1 \* 131 773 77 56 2 191 1839 43 153 3 147 1846 39 123 4 \* 149 1120 69 117 5 401 2500 58 355 6 \* 187 1055 36 155 7 196 1048 32 165 8 \* 106 277 36 72

ROI, region of interest.

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Feature Analysis

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FCs

Decision outcome

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TABLE 3

N-way ANOVA of Effect of Statistically Significantly Different Features (Identified During One-Way ANOVA, Figure 6 ) of Fixation Clusters on the Decision Outcome of Radiologists

Radiologist/Feature Global Feature Local Feature Entropy ( P Value) Shannon Energy ( P Value) Log Energy ( P Value) Dwell Time ( P Value) Log Energy of Trispectrum at 20.13 Cycle/Degree Frequency and 18° Orientation ( P Value) Log Energy of Trispectrum at 20.13 Cycle/Degree Frequency and 126° Orientation ( P Value) Log Energy of Trispectrum at 22.3 Cycle/Degree Frequency and 18° Orientation ( P Value) Log Energy of Trispectrum at 22.3 Cycle/Degree Frequency and 90° Orientation ( P Value) Log Energy of Trispectrum at 22.3 Cycle/Degree Frequency and 126° Orientation ( P Value) Log Energy of Trispectrum at 22.3 Cycle/Degree Frequency and 144° Orientation ( P Value) Log Energy of Trispectrum at 22.3 Cycle/Degree Frequency and 180° Orientation ( P Value) All radiologists (combined) Yes(0) Yes(0) Yes(0) Yes(0) No(0.997) No(0.9952) 1 Yes(0) Yes(0.0002) Yes(0.0001) Yes(0) No(0.9886) No(0.9856) No(0.918) No(0.9471) 2 No(0.2001) No(0.3976) No(0.8557) Yes(0) No(0.99630) No(0.9991) 3 No(0.183) Yes(0.0114) No(0.157) No(0.6317) No(0.9982) No(0.9964) 4 No(0.0889) Yes(0) No(0.8193) Yes(0) No(0.9717) No(0.9915) No(0.994) 5 Yes(0) Yes(0.0031) No(0.101) Yes(0) No(0.9985) 6 Yes(0.0161) No(0.279) No(0.9653) Yes(0.0002) No(0.996) No(0.9945) 7 Yes(0.0394) No(0.616) No(0.2519) No(0.256) No(0.9966) 8 Yes(0.0382) No(0.4222) No(0.5456) Yes(0.0312) No(0.9837)

ANOVA, analysis of variance.

Includes both all radiologists and per-radiologist analysis. The empty cells in this table are the features that were not found to have a statistically significantly different mean during one-way ANOVA of specified radiologist data, and hence the effect of this feature on decision outcome was not studied.

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Confidence scores

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TABLE 4

N-way ANOVA of Effect of Statistically Significantly Different Features (Identified During One-Way ANOVA, Figure 6 ) of Fixation Clusters on the Confidence Score of Radiologists

Radiologist/Feature Global Feature Local Feature Entropy ( P Value) Shannon Energy ( P Value) Log Energy ( P Value) Dwell Time ( P Value) Log Energy of Trispectrum at 20.13 Cycle/Degree Frequency and 18° Orientation ( P Value) Log Energy of Trispectrum at 22.3 Cycle/Degree Frequency and 18° Orientation ( P Value) Log Energy of Trispectrum at 22.3 Cycle/Degree Frequency and 90° Orientation ( P Value) Log Energy of Trispectrum at 22.3 Cycle/Degree Frequency and 126° Orientation ( P Value) Log Energy of Trispectrum at 22.3 Cycle/Degree Frequency and 144° Orientation ( P Value) Log Energy of Trispectrum at 22.3 Cycle/Degree Frequency and 180° Orientation ( P Value) All radiologists (combined) Yes(0.0016) Yes(0) Yes(0.0048) No(0.4284) No(0.709) No(0.58) No(0.6192) No(0.8587) No(0.1738) No(0.1738) 1 Yes(0.0484) Yes(0.0021) No(0.278) No(0.2972) No(0.6792) No(0.2222) No(0.3223) No(0.7005) No(0.0741) No(0.1757) 2 No(0.3095) No(0.3973) No(0.0845) No(0.6153) No(0.7572) No(0.9779) No(0.8591) No(0.7014) No(0.9504) No(0.8127) 3 No(0.1682) No(0.3656) No(0.0764) No(0.4612) No(0.1568) No(0.5144) No(0.1885) No(0.7558) No(0.7956) No(0.7717) 4 Yes(0.0448) Yes(0.0372) No(0.1085) No(0.5671) No(0.5803) No(0.5683) No(0.9109) Yes(0.0012) No(0.8233) Yes(0.0114) 5 No(0.8097) No(0.4946) Yes(0.0475) Yes(0.0052) No(0.7983) No(0.1153) No(0.9459) No(0.1595) Yes(0.0001) No(0.8279) 6 No(0.573) Yes(0.0099) No(0.3569) No(0.7739) No(0.8548) No(0.8302) No(0.8317) No(0.2024) No(0.5891) No(0.9634) 7 No(0.2424) Yes(0.0219) No(0.3774) No(0.4609) No(0.1996) No(0.5193) No(0.8166) Yes(0.0139) No(0.8173) No(0.9333) 8 No(0.1904) No(0.623) No(0.5029) No(0.4042) Yes(0.0144) No(0.8327) No(0.1385) No(0.629) No(0.629) No(0.3251)

ANOVA, analysis of variance.

Includes both all radiologists and per-radiologist analysis.

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MPFCs

Decision outcome

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TABLE 5

N-Way ANOVA of Effect of Statistically Significantly Different Features (Identified During One-Way ANOVA, Figure 6 ) of Marked Peripherally Fixated Clusters on the Decision Outcome and Confidence Score

Radiologist/Feature Effect of the Factor Global Feature Local Feature Entropy ( P Value) Shannon Energy ( P Value) Log Energy ( P Value) Log Energy of Power Spectrum at 0.6 Cycle/Degree Frequency and 0° Orientation ( P Value) Log Energy of Trispectrum at 20.13 Cycle/Degree Frequency and 126° Orientation ( P Value) Log Energy of Trispectrum at 22.3 Cycle/Degree Frequency and 18° Orientation ( P Value) Log Energy of Trispectrum at 22.3 Cycle/Degree Frequency and 90° Orientation ( P Value) Log Energy of Trispectrum at 22.3 Cycle/Degree Frequency and 126° Orientation ( P Value) Log Energy of Trispectrum at 22.3 Cycle/Degree Frequency and 180° Orientation ( P Value) All radiologists (combined) Decision outcome No(0.8163) No(0.2985) Yes(0.0066) One-way ANOVA of this feature group was not statistically significant, hence the study of the effect of decision outcome was not possible Confidence score Yes(0.0000) No(0.1489) No(0.2962) 1 Decision outcome No(0.5362) No(0.8000) No(0.7731) No(0.6902) No(0.9800) Confidence score No(0.3007) No(0.0510) No(0.2106) No(0.2593) No(0.8500) 2 Decision outcome No(0.6759) No(0.6500) No(0.3413) No(0.7820) No(0.9700) No(0.9700) Confidence score Yes(0.0008) No(0.6690) No(0.9751) No(0.4400) No(0.7500) No(0.8000) 3 Decision outcome No(0.5643) No(0.2800) No(0.0650) No(0.8520) No(0.4500) No(0.9800) No(0.5100) No(0.9991) Confidence score Yes(0.0194) No(0.5450) No(0.1903) No(0.4001) No(0.7200) No(0.3100) No(0.2100) No(0.3300) 4 Decision outcome No(0.3318) No(0.4100) No(0.6293) No(0.5533) No(0.9800) Confidence score No(0.1483) No(0.2400) No(0.2200) No(0.0680) No(0.6000) 5 Decision outcome No(0.5848) No(0.4500) No(0.3088) One-way ANOVA of this feature group was not statistically significant, hence the study of the effect of decision outcome was not possible Confidence score Yes(0.0045) No(0.0600) No(0.3088) 6 Decision outcome No(0.4300) No(0.6500) No(0.2431) No(0.0620) No(0.9800) Confidence score No(0.0908) Yes(0.0007) No(0.0710) No(0.0820) No(0.6100) 7 Decision outcome No(0.0843) Yes(0.0200) No(0.1097) Yes(0.0200) No(0.3900) No(0.8800) Confidence score Yes(0.0076) No(0.5000) No(0.4696) No(0.2000) Yes(0.0500) No(0.4600) 8 Decision outcome No(0.2435) No(0.5570) No(0.7646) No(0.0750) No(0.9639) Confidence score Yes(0.0314) Yes(0.0021) No(0.1141) Yes(0.0178) No(0.5083)

ANOVA, analysis of variance.

Includes both all radiologists and per-radiologist analysis. The empty cells in this table are the features that were not found to be of statistically significantly different mean during one-way ANOVA of specific radiologist data, and hence the effect of these features on decision outcome was not studied.

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Confidence scores

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Pairwise Comparison of ROIs

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TABLE 6

Pairwise Comparison of Differences Between Features of Fixation Cluster (FC), Marked Peripherally Fixated Cluster (MPFC), and Never Fixated Cluster (NFC)

Radiologists Pairwise Clusters Global Feature Local Feature Entropy ( P Value) Shannon Energy ( P Value) Log Energy ( P Value) Gabor Log Energy of Power Spectrum Analysis at 0.6 Cycle/Degree Frequency Scale and 0° Orientation ( P Value) Log Energy of Trispectrum at 22.3 Cycle/Degree Frequency and 18° Orientation ( P Value) ANOVA ( P Value) ANOVA ( P Value) ANOVA ( P Value) ANOVA ( P Value) ANOVA ( P Value) All radiologists (combined) FC vs MPFC Yes(0) Yes(0) Yes(0) Yes(0) No(1) FC vs NFC No(0.0522) Yes(0) Yes(0) No(1) No(1) MPFC vs NFC Yes(0) Yes(0) Yes(0) Yes(0) No(1) 1 FC vs MPFC Yes(0) Yes(0.0467) Yes(0.0837) Yes(0) No(1) FC vs NFC Yes(0) Yes(0) Yes(0) Yes(0) No(0.176) MPFC vs NFC Yes(0) Yes(0) Yes(0) Yes(0) No(1) 2 FC vs MPFC Yes(0) Yes(0.0011) Yes(0) Yes(0) No(1) FC vs NFC Yes(0.0498) Yes(0) Yes(0.0499) Yes(0) Yes(0.0093) MPFC vs NFC Yes(0) Yes(0) Yes(0) Yes(0) No(0.128) 3 FC vs MPFC Yes(0) Yes(0.00384) Yes(0.0309) Yes(0) No(1) FC vs NFC No(0.128) Yes(0) Yes(0) Yes(0)) Yes(0.0095) MPFC vs NFC Yes(0) Yes(0) Yes(0) Yes(0) No(0.18) 4 FC vs MPFC Yes(0) Yes(0.0208) No(0.116) Yes(0) No(0.0644) FC vs NFC Yes(0.0003) Yes(0) Yes(0) Yes(0) MPFC vs NFC Yes(0) Yes(0) Yes(0) Yes(0) 5 FC vs MPFC Yes(0) Yes(0) Yes(0) Yes(0) No(1) FC vs NFC No(0.12) Yes(0) Yes(0) Yes(0) Yes(0.0012) MPFC vs NFC Yes(0) Yes(0) Yes(0) Yes(0) Yes(0.0113) 6 FC vs MPFC Yes(0) Yes(0.0114) No(0.0748) Yes(0) No(0.0697) FC vs NFC Yes(0.012) Yes(0) Yes(0) Yes(0) MPFC vs NFC Yes(0) Yes(0) Yes(0) Yes(0) 7 FC vs MPFC Yes(0) Yes(0.00173) Yes(0.0575) Yes(0) No(0.0716) FC vs NFC No(0.081) Yes(0) Yes(0) Yes(0) MPFC vs NFC Yes(0) Yes(0) Yes(0) Yes(0) 8 FC vs MPFC No(0.337) No(1) No(1) Yes(0) No(0.6744) FC vs NFC Yes(0) Yes(0) Yes(0) Yes(0) MPFC vs NFC Yes(0) Yes(0.0001) Yes(0) Yes(0)

ANOVA, analysis of variance.

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High-Order Feature Analysis

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Figure 7, Boxplot of entropy, log energy, and Shannon energy of FC, MPFC, NFC, and total breast area. FC, fixation cluster; MPFC, marked peripherally fixated cluster; NFC, never fixated cluster.

Figure 8, Contour plots (peaks capped at 200 max) of trispectrum of two Gabor responses: (1) frequency 20.13 cycle/degree at 18° orientation, and 2) Frequency 22.3 cycle/degree at 18° orientation of a randomly selected FC, MPFC, and NFC ROI. The magnitude of the autocorrelation function for the spatial frequency components is represented as a constant slice on the z axis. The contours in this figure represent the top 200 (due to capping) values. The x and y axes of the plots are the two spatial frequency components (indices only) of the spectrum. The third frequency component is set to 0 for simplicity. FC, fixation cluster; MPFC, marked peripherally fixated cluster; NFC, never fixated cluster; ROI, region of interest.

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Discussion

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Deployment of Foveal Vision

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ROIs and Their Features

Descriptive Statistics of ROIs

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Feature Analysis Results

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Effect of high-order features

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Difference between FC and MPFC

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Limitations

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Conclusion

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Acknowledgments

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