Islamabad (Health Desk)Scientists have developed an advanced artificial intelligence-based model that can identify early signs of pancreatic cancer from CT scans up to three years before a clinical diagnosis is made.
According to researchers at Mayo Clinic in the United States, the system is capable of detecting subtle medical patterns that are invisible to the human eye and often missed in conventional diagnosis.
Experts say that early detection of pancreatic cancer has always been a major challenge because initial symptoms such as abdominal pain and weight loss usually appear when the disease has already reached an advanced stage. The five-year survival rate for this cancer remains as low as 13%.
The newly developed AI system was trained on around 1,000 CT scans, including records of patients who were initially scanned for other conditions but were later diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
During evaluation, the model was compared with expert radiologists and showed superior performance in identifying the disease at an early stage.
The study has been published in the scientific journal Gut and is being described by experts as a significant advancement in the field of early cancer detection.