Mass General Brigham AI estimates cancer survival risk from a patient selfie

Mass General Brigham researchers built FAHR-Face, an AI model trained on more than 40 million facial photographs, to estimate biological age and predict cancer survival from a single photo.

Among US cancer patients treated with radiotherapy, those who looked five or more years older had a 21% higher risk of dying over an average four-year follow-up. Doctors say more research is needed before the tool can be widely used.