The phrase "a technique for detecting" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing methods or approaches used to identify or discover something, often in scientific or technical contexts.
Example: "The researchers developed a technique for detecting early signs of the disease."
Alternatives: "a method for identifying" or "an approach for discovering".
In1915, a Harvard investigator named Marston developed a technique for detecting lies by measuring sustolic blood-pressure.
[NBC News] Researchers have come up with a technique for detecting mercury contamination in water by snapping a photo with a cellphone.
He came to prominence as an engineer in the 1970's when he worked out a technique for detecting leaks in steam pipes at a Canadian-built reactor, the Karachi nuclear power plant, in Pakistan.
Researchers have developed a technique for detecting hundreds of chemical compounds in the animals' exhalations.
Khonji et al. [25] proposed a technique for detecting phishing website by lexically analyzing URL tokens.
In some work [23, 24], sentiment analysis was studied as a technique for detecting radicalisation in social media.
Thus, the statistical features obtained from the OAT scheme can be used as an input vector and the LMT can be used as a detection technique for detecting epileptic seizure EEG signals.
He had announced a new technique for detecting cancer, using a one-and-a-half-ton, 10-foot-high device equipped with what he called "the world's largest magnet".
The new probe, designed by Lloyd Smith and his colleagues at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, is a variation on a standard technique for detecting genetic variations.
Multiplex PCR is an important technique for detecting a variety of pathogens simultaneously in a single assay.
Contact radiography using DCR on cartilage specimens from a well-defined joint area is a sensitive technique for detecting mineralizations, but not for analyzing them.
