The Work of Reading Mammograms and the Implications for Computer-Aided Detection Systems
Mark Rouncefield, Mark Hartswood, Rob Procter, Rebecca Slack, James Soutter · Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University) · 2003
We examine the ways that readers make sense of mammograms in context, showing how a consideration of the social aspects of this work might illuminate practice and suggest ways for the building of computer-based tools to support such work. We show how sense-making is a situated activity and raise some concerns as to the ways that technologies have been developed to support reading may impact negatively upon the very practice they were intended to support. We show how it is important to consider technologies in use and discuss how they might be developed to support real world use, as opposed to some idealised formulation of it. We conclude with some outline suggestions towards better user interfaces for computeraided detection systems, in particular, and for digital imaging systems in general.