Reducing affective responses to surgical images through color manipulation and stylization

Abstract

Original photo of a lasagna dish.Output of HueShift2. Output of FlowAbs [Kyprianidis and Döllner 2008].Figure 1: Two techniques studied in this article, each using a different strategy for making surgery images easier to look at. ABSTRACTWe present the first empirical study on using color manipulation and stylization to make surgery images more palatable. While aversion to such images is natural, it limits many people's ability to satisfy their curiosity, educate themselves, and make informed decisions. We selected a diverse set of image processing techniques, and tested them both on surgeons and lay people. While many artistic methods were found unusable by surgeons, edge-preserving image smoothing gave good results both in terms of preserving information (as judged by surgeons) and reducing repulsiveness (as judged by lay people). Color manipulation turned out to be not as effective. CCS CONCEPTS• Computing methodologies → Non-photorealistic rendering; Image processing; • Human-centered computing → Empirical studies in HCI ; * Lonni Besançon is also with Linköping University, Sweden.Publication rights licensed to ACM. ACM acknowledges that this contribution was authored or co-authored by an employee, contractor or affiliate of a national government. As such, the Government retains a nonexclusive, royalty-free right to publish or reproduce this article, or to allow others to do so, for Government purposes only.

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