Researchers at Mass General Brigham presented o FaceAge, a artificial intelligence (AI) that can estimate a person's biological age and improve predictions of survival outcomes cancer simply by analyzing your facial photograph.
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FaceAge Details
- FaceAge uses a system trained on tens of thousands of photos of faces to translate subtle facial features into an estimate of biological age.
- The study found that cancer patients, on average, appeared about 5 years older, with higher FaceAge correlating with worse survival rates.
- In clinical trials, clinicians showed significant improvements in accuracy in predicting 6-month survival when adding FaceAge risk scores to clinical data.
- The AI predictions correlated with a gene associated with cellular aging, suggesting that FaceAge captured processes not detected by chronological age.
Why is it important
While we’re taught not to judge a book by its cover, our faces can actually reveal crucial information about our health. By quantifying what doctors have intuitively observed for decades, this technology transforms facial features into actionable biomarkers that can help doctors tailor treatments more accurately than ever before.
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