The Effect of Mental Rotation on Surgical Pathological Diagnosis.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Pathological diagnosis involves very delicate and complex consequent processing that is conducted by a pathologist. The recognition of false patterns might be an important cause of misdiagnosis in the field of surgical pathology. In this study, we evaluated the influence of visual and cognitive bias in surgical pathologic diagnosis, focusing on the influence of "mental rotation."

Materials and methods

We designed three sets of the same images of uterine cervix biopsied specimens (original, left to right mirror images, and 180-degree rotated images), and recruited 32 pathologists to diagnose the 3 set items individually.

Results

First, the items found to be adequate for analysis by classical test theory, Generalizability theory, and item response theory. The re

SUBMITTER: Park H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5889998 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature