New AI tool can predict cancer survival by a single patient selfie, study suggests

Doctors have developed an artificial intelligence tool that can predict a cancer patient’s chances of survival from a single photograph of their face.

FAHR-FaceAge estimates a patient’s biological age, and predicts cancer survival.

FAHR-FaceSurvival predicts survival from a facial photograph directly, rather than inferring survival through biological age.

“To our knowledge, this is the first demonstration that an AI model can directly predict cancer survival from a simple photograph.”

“This foundation-model approach gives us a scalable way to develop multiple facial health biomarkers rather than training each model from scratch.”