AI may help diagnose early lung cancer

An international group that included scientists from Siemens Healthineers tested the company’s AI-Rad Companion Chest X-ray algorithm to see if it improved accuracy among junior and senior radiologists. The team found that AI-aided interpretation of chest radiographs resulted in a lower number of missed and false-positive pulmonary nodules among a group of nine participating radiologists.

“AI-aided interpretation was associated with significantly improved detection of pulmonary nodules on chest x-rays as compared with unaided interpretation of chest x-rays,” wrote corresponding author…