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Slideshow: Software Spots Devilish Details

A new computer-aided change detection system allows doctors to see subtle variations that can help with life-and-death diagnoses. Applying the technology to other types of images could help track terrorists or monitor environmental changes. By Michelle Delio.
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Software finds brain tissue changes that may signal the onset of devastating illness. In these two scans, subtle differences would be hard for the human eye to see.Courtesy of INEEL/Greg Lancaster

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From left, INEEL researchers Greg Lancaster, James Jones and Gordon Lassahn developed the breakthrough change detection system software.

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Yellow highlighting shows the differences that CDS software detected in the two scans, differences that might mean life or death to a medical patient.

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