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The practice of medicine involves viewing a vast amount of visual information. Whether it be seeing a patient’s overall appearance at the start of a physical examination or interpreting a computed tomographic study of the abdomen, physicians and their co-workers rely on their visual sense to gather the data they need to make a diagnosis or establish an appropriate treatment. Increasingly, the images used to support these tasks are in digital form. With rare exception, the digital image data itself (which is, after all, just an array of numbers) is not reviewed because the analog nature of human visual perception requires modulations of light intensity and wavelength. That is, we need variations in brightness and color to see things.
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Horii, S.C. (2002). Workstations. In: Dreyer, K.J., Mehta, A., Thrall, J.H. (eds) PACS. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3651-9_8
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