Read muscle loss automatically from scans patients already have
Every staging scan contains a precise measure of muscle mass that nobody looks at. Software could report it automatically and flag patients heading for wasting.
Automated segmentation of skeletal muscle at the third lumbar vertebra is accurate and fast, and low muscle mass predicts chemotherapy toxicity, surgical complications and survival across tumour types. The measurement is free because the scans already exist; the missing pieces are automated reporting into the record and a defined action when the value is low.
- Cachexia, toxicity and the limits of the patient · Patients often die of wasting or cannot tolerate the doses that would work. Treating the patient, not just the tumour, lags far behind.
- AI that is built but not validated or deployed · Thousands of cancer AI models are published; a handful are in clinical use, and fewer have shown they help patients.
- Toxicity and quality of life are undervalued · Trials measure how long people live, not how they live. Side-effects are under-reported and under-treated.
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