July 21, 2023, 6:07 AMA laboratory technician conducts artificial intelligence -based cervical cancer screening at a test facility in Wuhan, in China's central Hubei province, June 15, 2023.Artificial intelligence, or AI, is continuing to expand into many areas of our lives and one of those isResearchers are using machine-learning to build tools in the realm of cancer detection and diagnosing, potentially catching tumors or lesions that doctors could miss.
"The incidence of lung cancer and people who have never smoked is rising and so lung cancer is really a disease that could affect anyone, anyone with lungs, which essentially means anyone is at risk for getting lung cancer," Dr. Lecia Sequist, program director of the Cancer Early Detection and Diagnostics Clinic at the Mass General Cancer Center, told ABC News.
That was the similar goal of an AI tool built and studied by investigators at Harvard Medical School, the University of Copenhagen and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.able to identify those at the highest risk of pancreatic cancer"Most pancreatic cancers just present much too late and therefore, patients have a very, very bad survival, which is why we're working on this," Dr.
"What I imagine Sybil being able to do for lung cancer screening is really make lung cancer screening something that everyone could qualify for and then Sybil is used to help us understand who is at high risk and who's not," she said.