Pigeons (Columba livia) as trainable observers of pathology and radiology breast cancer images

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2015, Pages

  Levenson, Richard M ^a   Krupinski, Elizabeth A ^c   Navarro, Victor M ^b   Wasserman, Edward A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b The University of Iowa   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CALCIFICATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLUMBA LIVIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MAMMOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; OBSERVER BIAS; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTION; RADIOLOGIST; REINFORCEMENT; TRAINING; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL SYSTEM; ANIMAL; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; PATHOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGEONS AND DOVES; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COLUMBIDAE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 84954447479     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0141357     Document Type: Article

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