Physicians at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist are better predicting and diagnosing lung cancer in patients thanks to a new artificial intelligence (AI) technology.
The first academic medical center in the U.S. to use this technology, which is still not readily accessible in much of North Carolina, was Wake Forest Baptist.
The AI technology can predict the possibility of lung cancer based on imaging nodule features and classify patients into high-risk, intermediate-risk, or low-risk groups after being trained on more than 70,000 computerized tomography (CT) images.
In order to identify patients who should receive prompt biopsies and treatment, this technology aids pulmonologists and radiologists in better detecting and monitoring suspicious lung nodules that are cancerous while minimizing the number of unnecessary biopsies for patients who are classified as having benign lung nodules.
Physicians at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist are better predicting and diagnosing lung cancer in patients thanks to a new artificial intelligence (AI) technology.
The first academic medical center in the U.S. to use this technology, which is still not readily accessible in much of North Carolina, was Wake Forest Baptist.
The AI technology can predict the possibility of lung cancer based on imaging nodule features and classify patients into high-risk, intermediate-risk, or low-risk groups after being trained on more than 70,000 computerized tomography (CT) images.
In order to identify patients who should receive prompt biopsies and treatment, this technology aids pulmonologists and radiologists in better detecting and monitoring suspicious lung nodules that are cancerous while minimizing the number of unnecessary biopsies for patients who are classified as having benign lung nodules.
