It is learnt that the Goa government has reportedly announced that AI-powered lung cancer screening tools will soon be accessible across Primary Health Centers (PHCs) and district hospitals in the state. Artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare plays a pivotal role in combating many fatal diseases, such as skin, breast, and lung cancer. From X-Rays of whole organs to microscope pictures of cancer cells, doctors use imaging tests in many ways. One of which is finding cancer at its earliest stages, determining the stage of a tumor, how fast it is growing, seeing if treatment is working, and monitoring whether cancer has returned after treatment. Over the past several years, researchers have developed AI tools that have the potential to make cancer imaging faster, more accurate, and even more informative. According to the National Cancer Institute (NCI), AI can “see” things that we humans can’t and can find complex patterns and relationships between different data. Experts think that AI is in a better position to distinguish lung cancer from noncancerous changes on CT scans. In Goa AI-powered screening needs to be extended to breast, skin and lung cancer.
