Assessment of visual-spatial skills in medical context tasks when using monoscopic and stereoscopic visualization

Marisol Martinez Escobar; Bethany Juhnke; Kenneth Hisley; David Eliot; Eliot Winer

doi:10.1117/12.2007087

28 March 2013 Assessment of visual-spatial skills in medical context tasks when using monoscopic and stereoscopic visualization

Marisol Martinez Escobar, Bethany Juhnke, Kenneth Hisley, David Eliot, Eliot Winer

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Proceedings Volume 8673, Medical Imaging 2013: Image Perception, Observer Performance, and Technology Assessment; 86730N (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2007087
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2013, Lake Buena Vista (Orlando Area), Florida, United States

Abstract

The dramatic rise of digital medical imaging has allowed medical personnel to see inside their patients as never before. Many software products are now available to view this data in various 2D and 3D formats. This also raises many basic research questions on spatial perception for humans viewing these images. The work presented here attempts to answer the question: How would adding the stereopsis depth cue affect relative position tasks in a medical context? By designing and conducting a study to isolate the benefits between monoscopic 3D and stereoscopic 3D displays in a relative position task, the following hypothesis was tested: stereoscopic 3D displays are beneficial over monoscopic 3D displays for relative position judgment tasks in a medical visualization setting. The results show that stereoscopic condition yielded a higher score than the monoscopic condition, but the results were not always statistically significant.

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Marisol Martinez Escobar, Bethany Juhnke, Kenneth Hisley, David Eliot, and Eliot Winer "Assessment of visual-spatial skills in medical context tasks when using monoscopic and stereoscopic visualization", Proc. SPIE 8673, Medical Imaging 2013: Image Perception, Observer Performance, and Technology Assessment, 86730N (28 March 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2007087

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