A team of researchers from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, led by Sovanlal Mukherjee, PhD, and corresponding author Dr. Ajit Goenka, trained and developed machine-learning models to detect this deadly cancer at a prediagnostic stage on CT exams. The best-performing model was highly accurate for differentiating normal versus abnormal pancreas on these prediagnostic CT exams, yielding significantly better results than radiologists in the study.

“Radiomics-based [machine-learning] models can detect PDAC from normal pancreas when it is beyond human interrogation capability at a…