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AI model estimates cancer patients' survival from a single face photo
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Mass General Brigham researchers reported Oct. 19 that an AI model trained on more than 40 million face photographs predicted survival in cancer patients, sorting them into risk groups whose mortality differed more than threefold.
The study, published in The Lancet Digital Health, tested the model in two independent…
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