Singapore, May 2 -- AstraZeneca, in partnership with Indian health-tech companyQure.ai, has announced the successful completion of 5 million artificial intelligence (AI) enabled chest X-rays (CXRs) across more than 20 countries in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America.

The milestone, part of AstraZeneca's commitment to the World Economic Forum's EDISON Alliance 1 Billion Lives Challenge, demonstrates the potential of AI to improve lung cancer detection, especially within resource-limited healthcare settings.

The AI-enabled CXRs revealed important findings, including lung nodules at high risk for cancer in nearly 50,000 people - prompting their referral for further testing and possible diagnosis.

The EDISON Alliance's 1 Billi...