{"id":216877,"date":"2025-06-30T09:07:46","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T14:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/ai-matches-doctors-in-mapping-lung-tumors-for-radiation-therapy"},"modified":"2025-06-30T09:07:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T14:07:46","slug":"ai-matches-doctors-in-mapping-lung-tumors-for-radiation-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/ai-matches-doctors-in-mapping-lung-tumors-for-radiation-therapy","title":{"rendered":"AI matches doctors in mapping lung tumors for radiation therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-matches-doctors-in-mapping-lung-tumors-for-radiation-therapy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In radiation therapy, precision can save lives. Oncologists must carefully map the size and location of a tumor before delivering high-dose radiation to destroy cancer cells while sparing healthy tissue. But this process, called tumor segmentation, is still done manually, takes time, varies between doctors\u2014and can lead to critical tumor areas being overlooked.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a team of Northwestern Medicine scientists has developed an AI tool called iSeg that not only matches doctors in accurately outlining <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/lung+tumors\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">lung tumors<\/a> on CT scans but can also identify areas that some doctors may miss, reports a large new study.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike earlier AI tools that focused on static images, iSeg is the first 3D deep learning tool shown to segment tumors as they move with each breath\u2014a critical factor in planning <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/radiation+treatment\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">radiation treatment<\/a>, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medsci.org\/v09p0193.htm\" target=\"_blank\">half of all cancer patients<\/a> in the U.S. receive during their illness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In radiation therapy, precision can save lives. Oncologists must carefully map the size and location of a tumor before delivering high-dose radiation to destroy cancer cells while sparing healthy tissue. But this process, called tumor segmentation, is still done manually, takes time, varies between doctors\u2014and can lead to critical tumor areas being overlooked. Now, a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}