aceCan AI predict whether you’ll die from cancer from just an image of your face?
Researchers tasked an algorithm with predicting cancer patients’ risk of dying. For some people, it was shockingly accurate A new artificial intelligence model can predict a cancer patient’s risk of dying from a single photograph of their face, according to new research. While not perfectly accurate, the model found that people with higher risk-of-death scores, in general
An AI model can estimate a cancer patient's risk of dying from a single facial photograph, which could offer a simple, image-based way to gauge prognosis.
The source says the model is not perfectly accurate and was shockingly accurate only for some people, so its reliability across all patients is uncertain. The supplied text is also truncated before giving results.
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- JournalismScientific American2026-10-19
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