Scientists from the MIT Jameel Clinic and Massachusetts General Hospital, including Jameel Clinic's AI faculty lead, Regina Barzilay, have developed a new AI tool which can detect the first symptoms of lung cancer even before they are noticeable on a CT scan. Named Sybil, in honour of the sibyls, who were prophetesses in Greek and Roman mythology, the first results of studies released last January indicated that the tool predicted whether a person could develop cancer over the course of a year with an accuracy of between 86% and 94%.
