An artificial intelligence platform predicted thyroid cancer with high accuracy based on analysis of routine ultrasound images, according to study results presented at Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Cancers Symposium.
“If [the thyroid nodule] is cancerous, we can further predict the tumor stage, the nodal stage and the presence or absence of BRAF mutation,” said senior author Annie W. Chan, MD, director of the head and neck radiation oncology research program at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, who presented the findings.
Thyroid nodules have become very