The phrase "able to detect that" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the capability of identifying or recognizing something specific.
Example: "The software is able to detect that the user has entered incorrect information."
Alternatives: "capable of identifying that" or "able to recognize that".
"He had a natural instinct and hounds were able to detect that," Mr. Wiley said.
"Anything metallic or dense, the radar system we're confident will be able to detect that and initiate a braking event," he said.
"If you're doing something strange, we want to be able to detect that, and figure out what's going on," says Davis.
Apparently, the system was able to detect that people in Iraq trusted Neal's expertise on IEDs, although his experience might not have been instantly apparent.
Yes, actually in slang we might just be able to detect that downturn because salty now, in slang, means irritable really or hostile even.
MANET and FiWi data planes are able to detect that different packets belong to the same application flow by exploiting a flow identifier.
Note that Barnacle is able to detect fusions that involve non-canonical exon junctions; it does not require that fusion breakpoints match annotated exon boundaries.
That's not something that your typical security system is able to detect, but that's what Aperio specializes in.
In addition the Sequenom platform is more sensitive than Sanger sequencing in that it was able to detect mutations that represented only 5% of the DNA.
Our data also suggest that subtractive hybridization was able to detect transcripts that had not previously been found using SAGE or high throughput sequencing by synthesis.
Real-time RT-PCR is more sensitive that Northern blot analysis and was able to detect transcripts that were not seen with standard total RNA blotting methods.
