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A Chinese hospital says Alibaba's PANDA AI tool has analyzed 180,000 CT scans and detected ~24 pancreatic cancer cases since its deployment in November 2024

A tool for spotting pancreatic cancer in routine CT scans has had promising results, one example of how China is racing to apply A.I. to medicine's tough problems.

New York Times

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  • @mukund Mukund Mohan on x
    China's edge isn't just data volume; it's willingness to deploy imperfect systems in the real world and iterate in production. This is the kind of AI story that actually matters. Not chatbots. Not demos. Not benchmarks. A hospital in China used AI to scan routine CT images and
  • @erictopol Eric Topol on x
    A.I. detecting early pancreatic cancer in China, based on @NatureMedicine validation publication “I think you can 100% say AI saved their lives.” gift link https://www.nytimes.com/... [image]
  • @kyleichan Kyle Chan on x
    This is one of the most compelling real-world use cases of AI I've seen yet: “Several of their CT scans had raised no alarms until they were flagged by the A.I. tool. ‘I think you can 100 percent say A.I. saved their lives,’ he said."https://www.nytimes.com/ ...
  • @sarthakgh Sar Haribhakti on x
    “The tool has since analyzed more than 180,000 abdominal or chest CTs, helping doctors detect about two dozen cases of pancreatic cancer, 14 of which were in the early stage....”
  • @bart Bart Collet on x
    AI model PANDA spots early pancreatic cancer on routine non-contrast CT (abdomen or chest), often outperforming experienced radiologists even for small, early-stage tumors, and could enable large-scale, low-cost opportunistic screening without changing current CT workflows. [imag…
  • @kyleichan Kyle Chan on x
    This same team of researchers, which includes AI researchers with Alibaba who developed the PANDA tool, published an article demonstrating this system's usefulness in Nature Medicine in 2023. https://www.nature.com/...
  • @jchengwsj Jonathan Cheng on x
    In China, A.I. Is Finding Deadly Tumors That Doctors Might Miss—A tool for spotting pancreatic cancer in routine CT scans has had promising results, one example of how China is racing to apply A.I. to medicine's tough problems. @vwang3 https://www.nytimes.com/...
  • @armanddoma Armand Domalewski on x
    wow https://www.nytimes.com/... [image]
  • @chinabeigebook @chinabeigebook on x
    “The tool is one example of how Chinese tech companies & hospitals are racing to apply A.I. to some of medicine's most stubborn problems.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
  • @skupor Scott Kupor on x
    Classic AI article - the AI correctly identifies 93% of pancreatic cancer cases but questioned by “experts” since there may be some false positives, with no discussion of human doctor false positive/negative comparison
  • @aiims1742 Anirban Maitra on x
    The PANDA (#PancreaticCancer detection using #AI) study published in @NatureMedicine two years ago got written up this morning in the @nytimes (Subscription required) https://www.nytimes.com/...
  • @brettredacted Brett on x
    this is exactly what AI should be used for, leave art to the artists
  • r/technology r on reddit
    In China, A.I. Is Finding Deadly Tumors That Doctors Might Miss