In a new study, South Korean scientists found that AI can significantly improve the ability to identify abnormal growths in the lungs. This advantage of AI is due to the ability to learn faster with each chest X-ray scan, according to the Daily Mail (UK).
When analyzing chest X-rays, AI can screen for lung cancer better than doctors
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In addition, AI is also more sensitive and less likely to miss cases that require immediate treatment. Scientists believe that using AI can help improve survival rates for lung cancer patients.
In the study, the researchers tested nearly 10,500 chest X-rays collected from a screening center between June 2020 and December 2021. They divided the patients into two groups: one group had AI analyze the images, and the other group had human doctors evaluate them without using AI.
Among the X-ray images, AI detected 0.59% of cases with abnormal lung nodules that required immediate treatment. Meanwhile, the detection rate of doctors was only 0.25%, less than half of the AI.
"Detecting abnormal lung nodules, which are early signs of lung cancer, is one of the most important tasks in chest X-rays. Many studies have proposed computer software with integrated AI to improve the efficiency of detecting abnormalities in the lungs for doctors, but it has not been widely used yet," said Dr. Jin Mo Goo, co-author of the study at Seoul National University Hospital (Korea).
Lung cancer patients often only come for check-ups and discover they have the disease when their body has already shown serious symptoms. By then, the cancer has metastasized and is difficult to treat.
In the early stages, lung cancer will not show any significant symptoms. But when it reaches the advanced stage, the patient will experience symptoms such as persistent cough, coughing up blood, shortness of breath, fatigue, unexplained weight loss, pain when breathing...
Source: https://thanhnien.vn/ai-co-the-sang-loc-ung-thu-phoi-hieu-qua-18523021414484103.htm
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