December 11, 2010

Coffee Break => Truth Data.


We've written here (& elsewhere) about the importance of making repeated measurements in order to understand their precision & stability.

Cancer imaging researchers get this. To assess imaging approaches, they repeat scans after a brief pause – just long enough to get the patient off the scanner table, and then back on. They refer to these short interval measurements as "coffee break studies" that yield "truth data".

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