{"id":224967,"date":"2025-11-12T13:06:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T19:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/ai-detects-hidden-objects-on-chest-scans-better-than-radiologists"},"modified":"2025-11-12T13:06:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T19:06:37","slug":"ai-detects-hidden-objects-on-chest-scans-better-than-radiologists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/ai-detects-hidden-objects-on-chest-scans-better-than-radiologists","title":{"rendered":"AI detects hidden objects on chest scans better than radiologists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-detects-hidden-objects-on-chest-scans-better-than-radiologists2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of Southampton have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that can spot hard-to-see objects lodged in patients\u2019 airways better than expert radiologists.<\/p>\n<p>In a study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41746-025-02097-w\" target=\"_blank\">published in <i>npj Digital Medicine<\/i><\/a>, the AI model outperformed radiologists in checking CT scans for objects that don\u2019t show up well on scans. The paper is titled \u201cAutomated Detection of Radiolucent Foreign Body Aspiration on Chest CT Using Deep Learning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These accidentally inhaled objects can cause coughing, choking, difficulty breathing and sometimes lead to more serious complications if not treated properly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the University of Southampton have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that can spot hard-to-see objects lodged in patients\u2019 airways better than expert radiologists. In a study published in npj Digital Medicine, the AI model outperformed radiologists in checking CT scans for objects that don\u2019t show up well on scans. The paper is [\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-224967","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\/224967","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=224967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}