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The CT looked for one disease, AI found another

An artificial intelligence system identified 90% of esophageal cancer cases in chest CT scans, and in some cases detected the tumor months before diagnosis. Could future scans be able to detect more than one disease, without additional testing and without extra radiation? Dr. Arnon Makori, head of the imaging department at Assuta: “The beauty here is seeing how, in a short time, we take and build AI-based tools in the field of medical imaging to provide preventive medicine.”