Snowball in a Blizzard: A Physician's No
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Hatch, Steven
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Fiction
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2016
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Basic Books
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English
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There's a running joke among radiologists: finding a tumor in a mammogram is akin to finding a snowball in a blizzard. A bit of medical gallows humor, this simile illustrates the difficulties of finding signals (the snowball) against a background of noise (the blizzard). Doctors are faced with simil