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AI model identifies high-risk lung cancer in nonsmokers

AuntMinnie

A team led by medical student Anika Walia, of Boston University, who will present the study, developed a model called CXR-Lung-Risk using 147,497 chest x-rays of 40,643 asymptomatic smokers and never-smokers from a previous lung cancer screening trial.

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AI Identifies Non-smokers at High Risk for Lung Cancer

Imaging Technology

For the study, CIRC researchers set out to improve lung cancer risk prediction in never-smokers by testing whether a deep learning model could identify never-smokers at high risk for lung cancer, based on their chest X-rays from the electronic medical record.