Can eye-tracking help to create a new method for X-ray analysis of rheumatoid arthritis patients, including joint segmentation and scoring methods?

ABSTRACT: Reading hand and foot X-rays in rheumatoid arthritis patients is difficult and time-consuming. In research, physicians use the modified Sharp van der Heijde Sharp (mvdH) score by reading of hand and foot radiographs. The aim of this study was to create a new method of determining the mvdH via eye tracking and to study its concordance with the mvdH score. We created a new method of quantifying the mvdH score based on reading time of a reader monitored via eye tracking (Tobii Pro Lab software) after training with the aid of a metronome. Radiographs were read twice by the trained eye-tracking reader and once by an experienced reference radiologist. A total of 440 joints were selected; 416 could be interpreted for erosion, and 396 could be interpreted for joint space narrowing (JSN) when read

SUBMITTER: Quere B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11458192 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature