The phrase "able to detect the difference" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the capability to recognize or identify variations between two or more items, concepts, or situations.
Example: "The new software is able to detect the difference between genuine and counterfeit documents."
Alternatives: "capable of distinguishing the difference" or "able to recognize the difference."
Differently, the parietal region which traditionally is responsible to integrate different sources of information was not able to detect the difference between PG and PAG.
It wold allow for new control capabilities for games, for instance, and could help make for much more sophisticated input response in apps like Garage Band, where being able to detect the difference between a light and a hard press could translate to different sounds produced by a virtual keyboard.
It takes a genuine passport scholar like Boucar to be able to detect the difference between a real and a fake passport from, say, Uzbekistan, not to mention whether every entry and exit stamp is authentic.
Fastidious to the last, apparently Daft Punk made Moroder speak into a different microphone from each decade to represent each period of his career – undetectable to the human ear, the robots would be able to detect the difference.
"Questions arise as to how law enforcement authorities will be able to detect the difference between synthetic and real horn, especially if they are sold as powder or in manufactured products".
The action is centered on the junior programmer of an academic team who begins to suspect that their computer is able to detect the difference between a computer opponent and a human one, and thus is exhibiting elements of self-consciousness.
Both instruments were able to detect the differences between patients with different disease severity as measured by the SAQ.
The new clocks may be able to detect the differences in the flow of time resulting from a half-inch change in altitude.
But if we could get the behavior data by improving ultrasonogram techniques, using whatever technology, and we're able to detect the differences -- then motor therapy might be possible.
Therefore, we are also able to detect the differences in histone modifications before and after electro-acupuncture treatment at Neiguan for these patients.
Actually the respondents were able to detect the differences between these closely related items, but according to their medical experience, they explained that in practice they had no way to distinguish one item from each other.
