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

Researchers at Mass General Brigham built a custom AI system that estimates a patient's biological age from a single facial photograph and uses it to predict survival outcomes for people diagnosed with cancer, according to a study reported by The Guardian. The tool is designed to forecast a cancer patient's chances of survival directly from the image rather than through conventional clinical inputs. The work points to a possible low-cost, image-based route to biological-age estimation in oncology, though the report gives no accuracy figures or patient counts.