India, May 1 -- An artificial intelligence or AI tool developed by Mayo Clinic can help doctors find pancreatic cancer much earlier than usual, even up to three years before it is normally diagnosed.
"The greatest barrier to saving lives from pancreatic cancer has been our inability to see the disease when it is still curable," said senior author Ajit Goenka, a Mayo Clinic radiologist and nuclear medicine specialist. "This AI can now identify the signature of cancer from a normal-appearing pancreas, and it can do so reliably over time and across diverse clinical settings."
In the study, published in Gut, researchers tested the AI using real-world medical data from different hospitals and scanning systems. They analyzed nearly 2,000 CT sca...