STAT July 17, 2019
Pancreatic cancer often kills people because they are diagnosed too late, after their tumors have spread. Other patients may die following the removal of harmless cysts that appear threatening amid a fog of imaging data and other clinical information.
But a new artificial intelligence system unveiled Wednesday by doctors at Johns Hopkins offers to provide a clearer picture for patients: In testing, it displayed a superhuman ability to differentiate harmful lesions from ones that pose no threat at all.
A study published in Science Translational Medicine detailing the performance of the system, dubbed CompCyst, reported that its use would have reduced 60% of unnecessary surgeries in patients whose tumors were found not to be harmful following their procedures.
“This approach...
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