{"id":197737,"date":"2026-03-20T12:41:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T16:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/study-shows-ai-assisted-risk-model-for-lung-nodules-is-cost-effective\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T13:10:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T17:10:19","slug":"study-shows-ai-assisted-risk-model-for-lung-nodules-is-cost-effective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/study-shows-ai-assisted-risk-model-for-lung-nodules-is-cost-effective\/","title":{"rendered":"Study shows AI-assisted risk model for lung nodules is cost-effective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.vumc.org\/2026\/03\/20\/study-shows-ai-assisted-risk-model-for-lung-nodules-is-cost-effective\/\">Study shows AI-assisted risk model for lung nodules is cost-effective<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.vumc.org\/2026\/03\/20\/study-shows-ai-assisted-risk-model-for-lung-nodules-is-cost-effective\/\">https:\/\/news.vumc.org\/2026\/03\/20\/study-shows-ai-assisted-risk-model-for-lung-nodules-is-cost-effective\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-20 12:41:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"news.vumc.org\">news.vumc.org<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lung screenings using low-dose CT scans are crucial for early cancer detection but cannot determine if pulmonary nodules are cancerous or benign.<\/li>\n<li>Radiologists, pulmonologists, and surgeons analyze imaging to decide if invasive biopsies are needed, a process known as risk stratification of pulmonary nodules.<\/li>\n<li>About a tenth to a fifteenth of surgeries for these nodules are for benign tissue, hence risk prediction software such as the Lung Cancer Prediction Score aids in necessity determination.<\/li>\n<li>Artificial intelligence-assisted decision-making using such software results in being cost-effective compared to clinician assessment alone, with a cost-effective ratio of $4,485 per life year gained per a study.<\/li>\n<li>The study by Vanderbilt Health emphasized the cost-effectiveness of AI-assisted decision-making for managing indeterminate pulmonary nodules.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Study shows AI-assisted risk model for lung nodules is cost-effective https:\/\/news.vumc.org\/2026\/03\/20\/study-shows-ai-assisted-risk-model-for-lung-nodules-is-cost-effective\/ Publish Date: 2026-03-20 12:41:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":197738,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/vumc-reporter.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/lung-cancer_iStock-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-197737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197737"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197739,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197737\/revisions\/197739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}