Bird Brain? Pigeons Make Good Radiologists
Some areas don't have enough radiologists. Anyone think this is a good idea?:
“Pathologists and radiologists spend years acquiring and refining their medically essential visual skills, so it is of considerable interest to understand how this process actually unfolds and what image features and properties are critical for accurate diagnostic performance. Key insights into human behavioral tasks can often be obtained by using appropriate animal models. We report here that pigeons …”
“Overall, our results suggest that pigeons can be used as suitable surrogates for human observers in certain medical image perception studies, thus avoiding the need to recruit, pay, and retain clinicians as subjects for relatively mundane tasks…”
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0141357
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