Radiologists detect breast cancer in 'blink of an eye'

Tuesday, August 30, 2016 - 04:51 in Health & Medicine

Visual attention researchers showed radiologists mammograms for half a second and found that they could identify abnormal mammograms at better than chance levels. They further tested this ability through a series of experiments to explore what signal may alert radiologists to the presence of a possible abnormality, in the hopes of using these insights to improve breast cancer screening and early detection.

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