AI face scan in a clinical setting.
\n\nDoctors have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that can predict a cancer patient's chances of survival from just one photograph of their face. The system was built by experts at Mass General Brigham, a nonprofit academic healthcare system in Massachusetts, US. It estimates a person's biological age and directly predicts survival in patients diagnosed with cancer. The findings were published in the journal Lancet Digital Health.
\n\nThe tool was trained on more than 40 million facial photographs of people from different ethnic groups and age groups. Experts say it is one of the most complete examples so far of how a simple selfie could help doctors assess a patient's health and guide their care.
\n\nBiological age is the age a person looks, rather than their actual age in years. The AI can estimate this from an ordinary photo.
\n\nBoth tools came from the same model, but they pick up different information about a patient’s health. They also look at different parts of the face. FAHR-FaceAge focuses on the lines running from the sides of the nose to the corners of the mouth, the forehead just above the eye sockets, and the temples.
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