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Eye tracking en la Investigación médica Q1 2024

La tecnología Eye tracking ha hecho avanzar considerablemente la investigación médica en el primer trimestre de 2024, al proporcionar información detallada sobre los procesos cognitivos y perceptivos. Los estudios han utilizado el eye tracking para explorar los comportamientos de lectura en la afasia, evaluar el reconocimiento facial en anomalías cerebrales raras y medir la atención visual en estudiantes de odontología. Estas aplicaciones demuestran la capacidad de la tecnologia para mejorar la comprension de las afecciones neurologicas y las practicas clinicas, ofreciendo datos precisos y objetivos que pueden servir de base para futuras intervenciones y evaluaciones.

Objective evaluation of gaze location patterns using eye tracking during cystoscopy and artificial intelligence-assisted lesion detection

Atsushi Ikeda, Kazuya Izumi, Kensuke Katori, Hirokazu Nosato, Keita Kobayashi, Shuhei Suzuki, Shuya Kandori, Masaru Sanuki, Yoichi Ochiai & Hiroyuki Nishiyama

Background: The diagnostic accuracy of cystoscopy varies according to the knowledge and experience of the performing physician. In this study, we evaluated the difference in cystoscopic gaze location patterns between medical students and urologists and assessed the differences in their eye movements when simultaneously observing conventional cystoscopic images and images with lesions detected by artificial intelligence (AI). Methodology: Eye-tracking measurements were performed, and observation patterns of participants (24 medical students and 10 urologi...

Gaze-contingent processing improves mobility, scene recognition and visual search in simulated head-steered prosthetic vision

Jaap de Ruyter van Steveninck, Mo Nipshagen, Marcel van Gerven, Umut Güçlü, Yağmur Güçlüturk & Richard van Wezel

Objective. The enabling technology of visual prosthetics for the blind is making rapid progress. However, there are still uncertainties regarding the functional outcomes, which can depend on many design choices in the development. In visual prostheses with a head-mounted camera, a particularly challenging question is how to deal with the gaze-locked visual percept associated with spatial updating conflicts in the brain. The current study investigates a recently proposed compensation strategy based on gaze-contingent image processing with eye-tracking. Ga...

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A preliminary examination of regressive eye movements to content and function words when people with aphasia and neurotypical adults read narratives

Andrew Bevelhimer, Kelly Knollman-Porter, Sarah E. Wallace, Karen Hux & Michael R. Hughes

Background & Aims: Eye-tracking technology provides a mechanism to explore regressive fixation behaviors to words constituting specific categories (i.e., content and function words) when people with aphasia (PWA) and neurotypical adults (NA) read multi-sentence narratives. Examining regressive eye movements to words comprising different categories allows for further discernment of intact and altered fixation behaviors that may contribute to the future development of interventions and supports. Methods: Eight PWA and eight NAs read paragraph-length narrat...

A study on cognition, eye movements and facial expression recognition in an asymptomatic elderly patient with agenesis of the corpus callosum and colpocephaly discovered accidentally

K. Polet, S. Hesse, P. Barres, S. Roth & S. Louchart de la Chapelle

Introduction: Total agenesis of the corpus callosum is a rare congenital anomaly, often associated with other brain malformations. As the diagnosis is based on neuroradiological evidence, only a few cases of asymptomatic elderly people have been described. Therefore, little is known about the aging of the brain in this type of individual. Case report: We present a case of incidentally discovered total agenesis of the corpus callosum with colpocephaly (disproportionately enlarged occipital horns) and midline lipoma in a highly educated and autonomous seve...

Initial Experience of Using First-Person Wearable Video Recording Technology during Central Venous Catheter Placement in the Cardiac Operating Room

Enrique Vergara-Escudero, Alexander Gherciuc, David Buyck, Aya Eid, Susana Arango, Stephen Richardson & Tjorvi E Perry

Objective: The aim of this study was to use wearable video-recording technology to measure precisely the timing of discrete events during perioperative central venous catheter (CVC) placements. Design: A single-center, observational, exploratory study on the use of wearable video-recording technology during intraoperative CVC placement. Setting: The study was conducted at a University Hospital. Participants: Clinical anesthesia residents, cardiothoracic anesthesia fellows, and attending anesthesiologists participated in this study. Interventions: Partici...

Outcome measures in Angelman syndrome

Doesjka A. Hagenaar, Karen G. C. B. Bindels-de Heus, Maud M. van Gils, Louise van den Berg, Leontine W. ten Hoopen, Philine Affourtit, Johan J. M. Pel, Koen F. M. Joosten, Manon H. J. Hillegers, Henriëtte A. Moll, Marie-Claire Y. de Wit, Gwen C. Dieleman & Sabine E. Mous

Angelman syndrome (AS) is a rare neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by severe intellectual disability, little to no expressive speech, visual and motor problems, emotional/behavioral challenges, and a tendency towards hyperphagia and weight gain. The characteristics of AS make it difficult to measure these children’s functioning with standard clinical tests. Feasible outcome measures are needed to measure current functioning and change over time, in clinical practice and clinical trials.

An analysis on the effect of body tissues and surgical tools on workflow recognition in first person surgical videos

Hisako Tomita, Naoto Ienaga, Hiroki Kajita, Tetsu Hayashida & Maki Sugimoto

Analysis of operative fields is expected to aid in estimating procedural workflow and evaluating surgeons’ procedural skills by considering the temporal transitions during the progression of the surgery. This study aims to propose an automatic recognition system for the procedural workflow by employing machine learning techniques to identify and distinguish elements in the operative field, including body tissues such as fat, muscle, and dermis, along with surgical tools.

Biosignal comparison for autism assessment using machine learning models and virtual reality

Maria Eleonora Minissi, Alberto Altozano, Javier Marín-Morales, Irene Alice Chicchi Giglioli, Fabrizia Mantovani & Mariano Alcañiz

Clinical assessment procedures encounter challenges in terms of objectivity because they rely on subjective data. Computational psychiatry proposes overcoming this limitation by introducing biosignal-based assessments able to detect clinical biomarkers, while virtual reality (VR) can offer ecological settings for measurement. Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder where many biosignals have been tested to improve assessment procedures. However, in ASD research there is a lack of studies systematically comparing biosignals for the...

Modality Synchronization When People With Aphasia Read With Text-to-Speech Support

Karen Hux, Kelly Knollman-Porter, Sarah E. Wallace, Andrew Bevelhimer & Yutika SinghJournal of Personality

Text-to-speech (TTS) technology potentially benefits people with aphasia by presenting content through two modalities simultaneously; however, for this to help, eye fixations must synchronize with the auditory rendition of words. Researchers have yet to explore how often and to what extent people with aphasia achieve modality synchronization. This retrospective analysis examined the percent of words people with aphasia see and hear concurrently when reading passages presented via TTS technology.

Record, reflect and refine: using video review as an initiative to improve neonatal care

Veerle Heesters, Henriette A. van Zanten, Veerle Heijstek, Arjan B. te Pas & Ruben S.G.M. Witlox

Background: The goal of every medical team is to provide optimal care for their patients. We aimed to use video review (VR) sessions to identify and address areas for improvement in neonatal care. Methods: For nine months, neonatal procedures (stabilization at birth, intubations and sterile line insertions) were video recorded and reviewed with the neonatal care providers. Action research was used to identify and address areas for improvement which were categorized as (1) protocol/equipment adjustments, (2) input for research, (3) aspects of variety, or ...

Video-Based Gaze Detection for Oculomotor Abnormality Measurements

Eran Harpaz, Rotem Z. Bar-Or, Israel Rosset & Edmund Ben-Ami

Measuring oculomotor abnormalities in human subjects is challenging due to the delicate spatio-temporal nature of the oculometric measures (OMs) used to assess eye movement abilities. Some OMs require a gaze estimation accuracy of less than 2 degrees and a sample rate that enables the detection of movements lasting less than 100 ms. While past studies and applications have used dedicated and limiting eye tracking devices to extract OMs, recent advances in imaging sensors and computer vision have enabled video-based gaze detection. Here, we present a self...

Impaired eye movements in Parkinsons disease and their relationship to top–down and bottom–up neural processing

Nobuhiro Takahashi, Mimpei Kawamura, Yasutaka Kobayashi & Masahito Hitosugi

Eye movement disorder in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) is less likely to appear when observing complex images compared with simple images. However, in case of auditory stimuli, meaningful stimuli can promote PD movement. Thus, we measured visual search movements with an eye tracker to investigate whether visual search changes in PD depending on the meaningfulness of visual stimuli; additionally, we measured event‐related potentials (ERPs) to neurophysiologically examine visual information processing in PD.

Development of performance and learning rate evaluation models in robot-assisted surgery using electroencephalography and eye-tracking

Somayeh B. Shafiei, Saeed Shadpour, Farzan Sasangohar, James L. Mohler, Kristopher Attwood & Zhe Jing

The existing performance evaluation methods in robot-assisted surgery (RAS) are mainly subjective, costly, and affected by shortcomings such as the inconsistency of results and dependency on the raters’ opinions. The aim of this study was to develop models for an objective evaluation of performance and rate of learning RAS skills while practicing surgical simulator tasks. The electroencephalogram (EEG) and eye-tracking data were recorded from 26 subjects while performing Tubes, Suture Sponge, and Dots and Needles tasks. Performance scores were generated ...

Social visual attention as a treatment outcome: evaluating the social games for autistic adolescents (SAGA) intervention

K. Suzanne Scherf, Jason W. Griffin, Charles F. Geier & Joshua M. SmythPLOS One

A core feature of autism involves difficulty perceiving and interpreting eye gaze shifts as nonverbal communicative signals. A hypothesis about the origins of this phenotype is that it emerges from developmentally different social visual attention (SVA). We developed Social Games for Autistic Adolescents (SAGA; Scherf et al. BMJ Open 8(9):e023682, 2018) as a serious game intervention for autistic individuals to discover the significance of eye gaze cues. Previously, we demonstrated the effectiveness of SAGA to improve the perception and understanding of ...

Investigating effect of standardized total body skin examination using sequence-networks

Snehal Dhengre, Hannah Nam, Matthew Helm & Ling RothrockInternational Journal of Human–Computer Interaction

This study employs sequence-network analysis to investigate the influence of instructing a standardized procedure on total-body skin examination (TBSE) performance. A between-subjects study was conducted with thirty-one participants comprising medical students and attending physicians. Among these participants, fifteen were randomly assigned to the uninstructed group and sixteen to the instructed group. The participants' gaze and field of view were recorded using eye tracking glasses while performing TBSE on a male and a female standardized patient. The ...

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