{"id":245701,"date":"2026-10-20T21:04:39","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T02:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/new-ai-tool-can-predict-cancer-survival-by-a-single-patient-selfie-study-suggests"},"modified":"2026-10-20T21:04:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T02:04:39","slug":"new-ai-tool-can-predict-cancer-survival-by-a-single-patient-selfie-study-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/new-ai-tool-can-predict-cancer-survival-by-a-single-patient-selfie-study-suggests","title":{"rendered":"New AI tool can predict cancer survival by a single patient selfie, study suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-ai-tool-can-predict-cancer-survival-by-a-single-patient-selfie-study-suggests2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is one of the most comprehensive demonstrations to date of how AI analysis of a selfie could help assess a patient\u2019s health and potentially guide their medical care, and was trained on data from more than 40 million facial photographs across a range of ethnicities and ages.<\/p>\n<p>Details of the breakthrough were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/landig\/article\/PIIS2589-7500(26)00079-8\/fulltext\">published in the Lancet Digital Health journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The system can estimate a person\u2019s biological age \u2013 the age a person looks, rather than their actual, chronological age \u2013 and predict the chances of survival for cancer patients from an ordinary photograph of their face, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/landig\/article\/PIIS2589-7500(26)00079-8\/fulltext\">according to the results<\/a> of a study that examined the model.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is one of the most comprehensive demonstrations to date of how AI analysis of a selfie could help assess a patient\u2019s health and potentially guide their medical care, and was trained on data from more than 40 million facial photographs across a range of ethnicities and ages. Details of the breakthrough were published in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245701","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\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}