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Song J, Wolfe B. Highly dangerous road hazards are not immune from the low prevalence effect. Cogn Res Princ Implic 2024; 9:6. [PMID: 38302804 PMCID: PMC10834906 DOI: 10.1186/s41235-024-00531-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2023] [Accepted: 01/12/2024] [Indexed: 02/03/2024] Open
Abstract
The low prevalence effect (LPE) is a cognitive limitation commonly found in visual search tasks, in which observers miss rare targets. Drivers looking for road hazards are also subject to the LPE. However, not all road hazards are equal; a paper bag floating down the road is much less dangerous than a rampaging moose. Here, we asked whether perceived hazardousness modulated the LPE. To examine this, we took a dataset in which 48 raters assessed the perceived dangerousness of hazards in recorded road videos (Song et al. in Behav Res Methods, 2023. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-023-02299-8 ) and correlated the ratings with data from a hazard detection task using the same stimuli with varying hazard prevalence rates (Kosovicheva et al. in Psychon Bull Rev 30(1):212-223, 2023. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-022-02159-0 ). We found that while hazard detectability increased monotonically with hazardousness ratings, the LPE was comparable across perceived hazardousness levels. Our findings are consistent with the decision criterion account of the LPE, in which target rarity induces a conservative shift in criterion. Importantly, feedback was necessary for a large and consistent LPE; when participants were not given feedback about their accuracy, the most dangerous hazards showed a non-significant LPE. However, eliminating feedback was not enough to induce the opposite of the LPE-prevalence induced concept change (Levari et al. in Science 360(6396):1465-1467, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aap8731 ), in which participants adopt a more liberal criterion when instances of a category become rare. Our results suggest that the road hazard LPE may be somewhat affected by the inherent variability of driving situations, but is still observed for highly dangerous hazards.
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Affiliation(s)
- Jiali Song
- Department of Psychology, University of Toronto Mississauga, 3359 Mississauga Rd, Mississauga, ON, L5L 1C6, Canada.
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- Department of Psychology, University of Toronto Mississauga, 3359 Mississauga Rd, Mississauga, ON, L5L 1C6, Canada
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Sánchez-Peralta LF, Glover B, Saratxaga CL, Ortega-Morán JF, Nazarian S, Picón A, Pagador JB, Sánchez-Margallo FM. Clinical Validation Benchmark Dataset and Expert Performance Baseline for Colorectal Polyp Localization Methods. J Imaging 2023; 9:167. [PMID: 37754931 PMCID: PMC10532435 DOI: 10.3390/jimaging9090167] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2023] [Revised: 08/18/2023] [Accepted: 08/18/2023] [Indexed: 09/28/2023] Open
Abstract
Colorectal cancer is one of the leading death causes worldwide, but, fortunately, early detection highly increases survival rates, with the adenoma detection rate being one surrogate marker for colonoscopy quality. Artificial intelligence and deep learning methods have been applied with great success to improve polyp detection and localization and, therefore, the adenoma detection rate. In this regard, a comparison with clinical experts is required to prove the added value of the systems. Nevertheless, there is no standardized comparison in a laboratory setting before their clinical validation. The ClinExpPICCOLO comprises 65 unedited endoscopic images that represent the clinical setting. They include white light imaging and narrow band imaging, with one third of the images containing a lesion but, differently to another public datasets, the lesion does not appear well-centered in the image. Together with the dataset, an expert clinical performance baseline has been established with the performance of 146 gastroenterologists, who were required to locate the lesions in the selected images. Results shows statistically significant differences between experience groups. Expert gastroenterologists' accuracy was 77.74, while sensitivity and specificity were 86.47 and 74.33, respectively. These values can be established as minimum values for a DL method before performing a clinical trial in the hospital setting.
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- Luisa F. Sánchez-Peralta
- Jesús Usón Minimally Invasive Surgery Centre, E-10071 Cáceres, Spain; (L.F.S.-P.); (J.F.O.-M.); (F.M.S.-M.)
- AI4polypNET Thematic Network, E-08193 Barcelona, Spain
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- Imperial College London, London SW7 2BU, UK; (B.G.); (S.N.)
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- TECNALIA, Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), E-48160 Derio, Spain; (C.L.S.); (A.P.)
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- Jesús Usón Minimally Invasive Surgery Centre, E-10071 Cáceres, Spain; (L.F.S.-P.); (J.F.O.-M.); (F.M.S.-M.)
- AI4polypNET Thematic Network, E-08193 Barcelona, Spain
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- TECNALIA, Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), E-48160 Derio, Spain; (C.L.S.); (A.P.)
- Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, University of the Basque Country, E-48013 Bilbao, Spain
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- Jesús Usón Minimally Invasive Surgery Centre, E-10071 Cáceres, Spain; (L.F.S.-P.); (J.F.O.-M.); (F.M.S.-M.)
- AI4polypNET Thematic Network, E-08193 Barcelona, Spain
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- Jesús Usón Minimally Invasive Surgery Centre, E-10071 Cáceres, Spain; (L.F.S.-P.); (J.F.O.-M.); (F.M.S.-M.)
- AI4polypNET Thematic Network, E-08193 Barcelona, Spain
- RICORS-TERAV Network, ISCIII, E-28029 Madrid, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Cardiovasculares (CIBERCV), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, E-28029 Madrid, Spain
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Kosovicheva A, Wolfe JM, Wolfe B. Taking prevalence effects on the road: Rare hazards are often missed. Psychon Bull Rev 2023; 30:212-223. [PMID: 35953668 PMCID: PMC9918605 DOI: 10.3758/s13423-022-02159-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/25/2022] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
Abstract
Previous work has shown that, in many visual search and detection tasks, observers frequently miss rare but important targets, like weapons in bags or abnormalities in radiological images. These prior studies of the low-prevalence effect (LPE) use static stimuli and typically permitted observers to search at will. In contrast, many real-world tasks, like looking for dangerous behavior on the road, only afford observers a brief glimpse of a complex, changing scene before they must make a decision. Can the LPE be a factor in in dynamic, time-limited moments of real driving? To test this, we developed a novel hazard-detection task that preserves much of the perceptual richness and complexity of hazard detection in the real world, while allowing for experimental control over event prevalence. Observers viewed brief video clips of road scenes recorded from dashboard cameras and reported whether they saw a hazardous event. In separate sessions, the prevalence of these events was either high (50% of videos) or low (4%). Under low prevalence, observers missed hazards at more than twice the rate observed in the high-prevalence condition. Follow-up experiments demonstrate that this elevation of miss rate at low prevalence persists when participants were allowed to correct their responses, increases as hazards become increasingly rare (down to 1% prevalence) and is resistant to simple cognitive intervention (participant prebriefing). Together, our results demonstrate that the LPE generalizes to complex perceptual decisions in dynamic natural scenes, such as driving, where observers must monitor and respond to rare hazards.
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Affiliation(s)
- Anna Kosovicheva
- Department of Psychology, University of Toronto Mississauga, 3359 Mississauga Road, Mississauga, ON, L5L 1C6, Canada.
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- Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Toronto Mississauga, 3359 Mississauga Road, Mississauga, ON, L5L 1C6, Canada
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Human ageing is associated with more rigid concept spaces. Psychon Bull Rev 2022; 30:722-730. [PMID: 36253591 DOI: 10.3758/s13423-022-02197-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 10/02/2022] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Prevalence-induced concept change describes a cognitive mechanism by which someone's definition of a concept shifts as the prevalence of instances of that concept changes. While this phenomenon has been established in young adults, it is unclear how it affects older adults. In this study, we explore how prevalence-induced concept change affects older adults' lower-level, perceptual, and higher-order, ethical judgements. We find that older adults are less sensitive to prevalence-induced concept change than younger adults across both domains. Using computational modeling, we demonstrate that these age-related changes in judgements reflect more cautious and deliberate responding in older adults. Based on these findings, we argue that while overly cautious responding by older adults may be maladaptive in some cognitive domains, in the case of prevalence-induced concept change, it might be protective against biased judgements.
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Levari DE. Range-frequency effects can explain and eliminate prevalence-induced concept change. Cognition 2022; 226:105196. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105196] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2021] [Revised: 05/27/2022] [Accepted: 05/31/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Wolfe JM. How one block of trials influences the next: persistent effects of disease prevalence and feedback on decisions about images of skin lesions in a large online study. Cogn Res Princ Implic 2022; 7:10. [PMID: 35107667 PMCID: PMC8811054 DOI: 10.1186/s41235-022-00362-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2021] [Accepted: 01/15/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
Abstract
Using an online, medical image labeling app, 803 individuals rated images of skin lesions as either "melanoma" (skin cancer) or "nevus" (a skin mole). Each block consisted of 80 images. Blocks could have high (50%) or low (20%) target prevalence and could provide full, accurate feedback or no feedback. As in prior work, with feedback, decision criteria were more conservative at low prevalence than at high prevalence and resulted in more miss errors. Without feedback, this low prevalence effect was reversed (albeit, not significantly). Participants could participate in up to four different conditions a day on each of 6 days. Our main interest was in the effect of Block N on Block N + 1. Low prevalence with feedback made participants more conservative on a subsequent block. High prevalence with feedback made participants more liberal on a subsequent block. Conditions with no feedback had no significant impact on the subsequent block. The delay between Blocks 1 and 2 had no significant effect. The effect on the second half of Block 2 was just as large as on the first half. Medical expertise (over the range available in the study) had no impact on these effects, though medical students were better at the task than other groups. Overall, these seem to be robust effects where feedback may be 'teaching' participants how to respond in the future. This might have application in, for example, training or re-training situations.
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Affiliation(s)
- Jeremy M Wolfe
- Visual Attention Lab, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 900 Commonwealth Ave, 3rd Floor, Boston, MA, 02215, USA. .,Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.
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