AI Predicts Death List from Single Face Analysis: 50% of Subjects Passed Away Within 90 Days

A US research team developed an AI that predicts short-term mortality risk from a single facial photo of cancer patients, achieving significantly higher accuracy than human doctors. The AI was trained on 40 million facial images to understand facial patterns, then specifically learned to estimate biological age and mortality risk, demonstrating novel predictive capability published in The Lancet Digital Health.

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