Where a model looks is not where people look: gaze heatmaps as a benchmark show Mamba localizes chest X-rays well but misses human intensity
A cross-architecture comparison of CNNs, ViTs and Vision Mamba uses human eye-tracking heatmaps as an independent benchmark to quantify how closely model saliency matches human gaze, finding that Mamba reaches the highest localization scores on chest X-rays while its saliency intensity is nearly uncorrelated with human fixations.