Zhidongxi is China's leading AI industry media outlet, providing news and insights on China's LLMs, robotics, AI agents, AI applications, and AI Hardware.
🚨Alibaba’s DAMO Academy has developed the Esophageal AI-Guided malignant Lesion Evaluation (EAGLE).
It’s an AI model that can detect precancerous lesions and esophageal cancer from noncontrast chest CT, a task historically considered impossible.
The model was validated across 80,612 patients in 12 centers across 3 countries.
• 90.0% sensitivity for esophageal cancer
• 52.5% sensitivity for precancerous lesions
• 98.5% specificity
It also maintained comparable performance on low-dose CT, potentially enabling esophageal cancer screening through existing lung-cancer screening programs.