Artificial Intelligence Detects Lung Cancer Risk

According to the World Health Organization, there was an estimated 1.8 million deaths in 2020 from lung cancer. It is a leading cause of cancer death among men and women and each year, more people die of lung cancer than of colon, breast, and prostate cancers combined. However, the number of new lung cancer cases continues to decrease, due to fewer people smoking and advances in early detection and treatment. The latest advance in early lung cancer detection involves artificial intelligence (AI). Researchers from Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and collaborators reported that an AI program accurately predicted the risk that lung nodules detected on screening CT will become cancerous.