Hangzhou, June 26 -- Chinese researchers have developed an AI model that can spot early signs of stomach cancer in routine CT scans, helping doctors identify cases earlier.
The DAMO GRAPE model, co-developed by the Zhejiang Cancer Hospital and Alibaba's DAMO Academy in east China's Zhejiang Province, was tested on more than 70,000 patients, yielding promising results.
The study was published in the journal Nature Medicine on Tuesday.
"This is an interesting finding as such a tool may be able to identify more patients with earlier stage gastric cancer in the future," commented a reviewer of the journal. Stomach cancer results in 260,000 deaths every year in China.
While early detection can increase five-year survival rates fr...