Posts by Michael T. Lu, MD, MPH
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Q&A: AI Predicts 10-Year Risk of Heart Attack and Stroke from X-Ray Images
Michael Lu, MD, MPH, Vineet Raghu, PhD, and colleagues have developed a deep learning model that can predict the 10-year risk of death from a heart attack or stroke using a single chest X-ray.
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Artificial Intelligence Estimates Biological Age, Predicts Mortality From a Chest X-ray
Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital demonstrated that "CXR-Age," a convolutional neural network, can estimate biological age from a chest X-ray image. This biological age was better than chronological age at predicting longevity.
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Using Chest X-Rays, Artificial Intelligence Can Predict Risk of Lung Cancer
Massachusetts General Hospital researchers have reported a deep learning approach to identify high-risk smokers who should undergo lung cancer screening.
Biography
Michael T. Lu, MD, MPH, is director of Research in Cardiovascular Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital, co-director of the Cardiovascular Imaging Research Center (CIRC) and assistant professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Lu's clinical expertise is in cardiovascular imaging, including the acquisition and interpretation of CT, MRI and ultrasound of the heart and blood vessels. His research focus is on A) clinical trials of cardiac CT to improve health and B) machine learning to predict health outcomes from multimodal imaging. He co-chairs the mechanistic CT substudy of REPRIEVE, a NHLBI sponsored multicenter randomized controlled trial of statins to reduce coronary plaque and prevent cardiovascular events in persons with HIV. He is Associate Editor for the Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography.
Dr. Lu earned his undergraduate, MD and MPH degrees from Harvard University. His training included a transitional internship in Surgery and Medicine at Newton-Wellesley Hospital, residency in Diagnostic Radiology at the University of California, San Francisco, fellowship in Thoracic and Cardiac Imaging at Mass General and a NIH T32 fellowship in Cardiac Imaging at Mass General.
Mass General Imaging
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