Dev tests CT tumor finder on 80 healthy scans: 5 false flags, 33 of 52 cancers caught
MaziyarPanahi · x · 2026-11-03
Developer Maziyar Panahi shares how his CT tumor finder behaves on healthy people—the question he gets asked most.
Running 80 healthy abdominal CTs on a single GPU: at a 1 mL threshold it flagged only 5 false positives, but the same threshold caught just 33 of 52 adrenal cancers. He asks radiologists how small a spot an AI should speak up about—illustrating the sensitivity vs. false-positive tradeoff in medical AI tools.
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