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If You Don’t Find It Often, You Often Don’t Find It: Why Some Cancers Are Missed in Breast Cancer Screening

Mammography is an important tool in the early detection of breast cancer. However, the perceptual task is difficult and a significant proportion of cancers are missed. Visual search experiments show that miss (false negative) errors are elevated when targets are rare (low prevalence) but it is unkno...

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Autores principales: Evans, Karla K., Birdwell, Robyn L., Wolfe, Jeremy M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3667799/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23737980
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0064366