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A new AI tool can analyze whole-body PET/CT scans and detect six different types of cancer, according to research presented on Monday at the SNMMI Annual Meeting in Toronto. In the future, this tool can help physicians assess a patient’s risk, predict their treatment response, and estimate their survival.
“There is a need for an AI tool like the one developed in the present study as there are, to my knowledge, no existing tools that automatically perform both tumor burden quantification and prognostic prediction on PET/CT scans of patients with cancer,” Kevin H. Leung, research associate at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, told HCB News.
He added that existing software solutions may offer semi-automated approaches for tumor delineation or...
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