New AI tool can predict cancer survival by a single patient selfie, study suggests

The study is one of the most comprehensive demonstrations yet of how AI analysis of a selfie could help to assess a patient's health and guide their medical care. The study is one of the most comprehensive demonstrations yet of how AI analysis of a selfie could help to assess a patient's health and guide their medical care. System can estimate a person's biological age and predict chances of cancer survival from a single photograph Doctors have developed an artificial intelligence tool that can predict a cancer patient's chances of survival from a single photograph of their face. The AI system was custom-built by experts at Mass General Brigham, a nonprofit, integrated academic healthcare system in Massachusetts, to estimate biological age and directly predict survival outcomes in patients diagnosed with cancer. It is one of the most comprehensive demonstrations to date of how AI analysis of a selfie could help assess a patient's health and potentially guide their medical care, and was trained on data from more than 40 million facial photographs across a range of ethnicities and ages.