{"id":636513,"date":"2026-10-20T17:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T17:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/636513\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T17:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T17:48:09","slug":"how-a-photo-of-a-patients-face-could-predict-whether-theyll-survive-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/636513\/","title":{"rendered":"How a photo of a patient\u2019s face could predict whether they\u2019ll survive cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"KMOOUJJQYFETDDIB3FPFTMX33U\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Researchers say they\u2019ve developed a new AI foundation model trained on more than 40 million facial photographs that can help predict mortality risk in patients with cancer.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"U3QI3RAQ7BEWTFOVJM2AXH7BSI\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The technology is based on work from scientists at Mass General Brigham in Boston, which had earlier created a system called FaceAge that is designed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/science\/2025\/05\/12\/ai-tool-biological-age-faceage\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/science\/2025\/05\/12\/ai-tool-biological-age-faceage\/\">estimate a person\u2019s biological age<\/a> \u2014 indicative of physiological condition rather than chronological age \u2014 from a facial photograph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Researchers say they\u2019ve developed a new AI foundation model trained on more than 40 million facial photographs that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":636514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[134,527,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-636513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}