"conspicuous contrast" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation in which two things are very different and easily noticeable. For example, "The conspicuous contrast in dress between the two classmates was striking."
This made a conspicuous contrast with Johnson's seemingly less urgent return from a summer break when the 2011 riots kicked off in the capital.
There was, it had to be admitted, a conspicuous contrast on Friday afternoon between the hordes of shoppers flowing down the main thoroughfares of O'Connell Street and Grafton Street and the paucity of visitors venturing into the city's galleries.
The following year, also in New Zealand, he directed and produced a rip-roaring buried treasure yarn, Race For The Yankee Zephyr, again affording conspicuous contrast with the psychological inflections of Running Scared.
Ms Bush is such a conspicuous contrast with Ms Clinton that it is hard not to suspect that the introverted, home-focused, quietly wifely persona which she projects has been crafted by a Republican focus group.
Perhaps the most conspicuous contrast between Stegner's Powell and Worster's Powell is the airing that Worster gives to the criticisms of Powell by his contemporaries.
MPIO have been shown to create highly conspicuous contrast effects on T2*-weighted MR images.
Coral and macroalgal cover presented a conspicuous contrasting pattern across exposed and sheltered sites.
What look like mistakes or anomalies are now conspicuous by contrast with the increasingly hard, polished surface: the odd, winglike shadow cast by Ms. Alvarez's shoulder, the way her elbow rests awkwardly on the steering wheel, the puny size of Mr. Matte's right leg. "It's what happens when you work with real people and two eyes," he says.
Both results point to the easier perception of the more conspicuous color contrast between the target and the probe pictures.
In terms of lesion detection, metastases are more conspicuous after contrast enhancement because malignant lesions lack functioning hepatocytes or Kupffer cells; whilst lesion signal intensity is unchanged the surrounding liver becomes either hyperintense (T1 agents) or hypointense (SPIO).
Surmising that eyespots' resemblance to vertebrate eyes is an anthropomorphised and subjective assumption, Stevens and colleagues argued that eyespots may be effective simply because of their conspicuous and contrasting features – the 'Conspicuousness hypothesis' [ 3, 34].
