The Future of AI and Lung Cancer Screening, A Conversation with Jae Ho Sohn, MD, MS

The primary purpose of lung cancer screening is to analyze the high-risk patient population to catch signs of cancer early. Jae Ho Sohn, MD, MS, assistant professor in the Cardiac and Pulmonary Imaging Section in the UC San Francisco Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging is engaged in a number of research projects including lung cancer risk stratification in lung cancer screening. He says that the field is moving toward a much needed risk based and personalized approach to lung cancer screening.

“As a radiologist and an artificial intelligence (AI) researcher, we’re trying to integrate the baseline — the first lung cancer screening scan that patients get — and use that information,” says Dr. Sohn. “Then integrate that into the risk stratification and say, ‘Should we continue scanning this patient every year?’ Or should we potentially skip to every three…