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Open AccessEffect of weight change and lifestyle modifications on the development or remission of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: sex-specific analysis
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Open AccessExperimental system for measurement of radiologists’ performance by visual search task
Detective performance of radiologists for “obvious” targets should be evaluated by visual search task instead of ROC analysis, but visual task have not been applied to radiology studies. The aim of this study ...