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Published in final edited form as: IEEE J Biomed Health Inform. 2024 Jun 6;28(6):3597–3612. doi: 10.1109/JBHI.2024.3371893

TABLE IV.

SUMMARY OF THE PAPERS THAT USED MACHINE LEARNING IN EYE TRACKING IN FUNDUS PHOTOGRAPHY, HISTOPATHOLOGY, SURGICAL VIDEO, ENDOSCOPY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (CT), MAGNETIC RESONANCE (MR) AND OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY (OCT) ANALYSIS

Reference Year Tracker Anatomy Image modality # cases # readers Gaze data form ML method Objective
Jiang et al. [48] 2023 Tobii Pro Spectrum eye fundus photography 1097 1 paths CNN Diagnosing diabetic retinopathy and age-related macular degeneration
Akerman et al. [107] 2023 Pupil Labs Core eye fundus photography 20 13 paths ID CNN Classifying the expertise of clinicians whiel reading OCT using statistical features from eye movements
Jiang et al. [48] 2023 Tobii Pro Spectrum eye fundus photography 1020 1 heatmaps Inception-V3, ResNet Improving automated diagnosis by using gaze heatmaps as additional network input
Mariam et al. [5] 2022 Gazepoint GP3 oral cavity histopathology 4 1 paths Fast R-CNN, YOLOv3, YOLOv5 Annotating histopathological image analysis with gaze assistance
Hosp et al. [75] 2021 Tobii Glasses 2 shoulder videos 150 15 path statistics SVM Recognizing the level of expertise from gaze data
Xin et al. [46] 2021 Tobii X-60 colon endoscopic video 1 10 paths GAN, LSTM Predicting loss of navigation during colonoscopy using gaze paths over endoscopic videos
Sharma et al. [52] 2020 SMI RED gallbladder endoscopic videos 2 29 paths HMM Predicting if experts can recognize surgical error using their gaze data
Zimmermann et al. [74] 2020 SMI Glass 2 vasculature videos 33 5 fixations Mask R-CNN Optimizing fluorography use by capturing the surgeon attention on the fluoroscopic screen
Pedrosa et al. [26] 2020 Tobii 4C lungs 3D CT 1 2 fixations YOLO Annotating 3D lung image with gaze assistance
Aresta et al. [25] 2020 Tobii 4C lungs 3D CT 20 4 fixations YOLO Using gaze fixations for lung nodule detection
Dmitriev et al. [96] 2019 pancreas 2D CT 134 4 heatmaps CNN Comparing activation maps of tumor classification CNN with gaze maps
Stember et al. [60] 2019 Fovio brain 2D MR 356 1 gaze paths U-Net Investigating if tumors segmented with gaze can be used for CNN training
Dimas et al. [57] 2019 EyeTribe bowel endoscopic video 226 1 heatmaps VGG-16 Automatically generating gaze heatmap
Khosravan et al. [59] 2018 Fovio lung 3D CT 6960 nodules 3 gaze paths CNN Using 3D gaze paths to find regions of attention and applying CNN to detect nodules in such regions
Lejeune et al. [80, 83] 2018 eyeTribe endoscopy, brain, eye, cochlea video, 2D MR, OCT, 2D CT 4/4/4/4 1 fixations U-Net Separating an image into superpixels and classifying superpixels that received the maximum attention
Ahmidi et al. [50] 2012 RED sinuses videos 1 20 fixations HMM Recognizing the level of experience from surgical tool motion and gaze data
Thiemjarus et al. [19] 2012 Tobii 1750 gallbladder endoscopic video 1 3 fixations SVM, RF Recognizing surgical steps from gaze data over endovideos
Ahmidi et al. [49] 2010 RED sinuses videos 2 11 fixations HMM Recognizing surgical tasks from tool motion and gaze data
James et al. [17] 2007 Tobii 1750 gallbladder endoscopic video 5 3 fixations PLP Recognizing surgical steps from gaze data over endovideos
Vilariño et al. [71] 2007 EyeLink2 colon endoscopic video 6 1 fixations SVM, SoM Using gaze data as seed and then classify the resulting image patches to represent polyps

Abbreviations: ML (machine learning), CNN (convolutional neural network), SVM (support vector machine), GAN (generative adversarial network), HMM (hidden Markov model), RF (random forest), PLP (parallel level perception), SoM (self-organized maps);