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Cedars-Sinai to develop AI tool that predicts pancreatic cancer risk in Black patients

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Cedars-Sinai investigators who previously developed an imaging tool that used artificial intelligence to predict pancreatic cancer are now working to adapt that tool specifically for Black patients, who have disproportionately high rates of the disease.

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