Researchers at the University of Florida 's Center for Research in Computer Vision have created an imaging system able to detect early lung cancer with 95 - 97 % accuracy . using a convolutional neural network ( CNN ) which mimics neurons in the human brain , the deep machine - learning model is able to identify small nodules of lung cancer . The system follows on from similar work by New York University researchers in September . With lung cancer killing more people worldwide than colon , breast and prostate cancers worldwide , and survival rates of those diagnosed after lung cancer has spread at only 4 % , early diagnosis is crucial .
Researchers at the University of Florida's Center for Research in Computer Vision have created an AI system able to detect early lung cancer with 95-97% accuracy. Using a convolutional neural network (CNN) which mimics neurons in the human brain, the deep machine-learning model is able to identify small nodules of lung cancer. The system follows on from similar work by New York University researchers in September. With lung cancer killing more people worldwide than colon, breast and prostate cancers combined, and survival rates of those diagnosed after lung cancer has spread at only 4%, early diagnosis is crucial.