AI Cuts PET Scans to Three Minutes

AI is officially making cancer screenings safer and way faster. Usually, a whole-body PET

scan takes nearly thirty minutes and exposes patients to a significant amount of radiation.

But researchers just proved they can slash that time down to three minutes. They took these

ultra-fast, low-dose scans, which usually look grainy and unusable, and fed them into

a deep learning model called CycleGAN. The AI successfully reconstructed the images,

filling in the missing details to match the quality of a full-length scan. Doctors could spot

lesions just as accurately, meaning we might soon see way less radiation and much

shorter hospital visits.