Artificial Intelligence‐Estimated Intrapancreatic Fat and Its Relationship to Familial and Germline Pancreatic Cancer Risk
Tom Konikoff, Laurens P Janssens, Hiroaki Takahashi, Garima Suman, Fred Nugen, Anup Mishra, Panos Korfiatis, Erin E Carlson, William R Bamlet, Aishwarya Pradeep, Kelly Harper, Karen A Doering, Adriana Delgado, Bradley J Erickson, Ajit H Goenka, Naoki Takahashi, Ann L Oberg, Shounak Majumder · 2026
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Tom Konikoff and co-authors report a 2026 study on fat inside the pancreas and the risk of pancreatic cancer. Family history and certain inherited gene changes each raise the risk of this cancer. Fat in the pancreas may raise it too, but whether high-risk people carry more of that fat was unknown.
The team built a deep learning tool that outlines the whole pancreas on MRI scans and measures its fat share. Standard methods sample only small regions, which can mislead because the fat is spread unevenly. The tool lets the authors compare high-risk people with matched controls on equal terms. The study sets up a fair test of whether pancreatic fat marks higher risk.
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| CREATOR | Tom Konikoff, Laurens P Janssens, Hiroaki Takahashi, Garima Suman, Fred Nugen, Anup Mishra, Panos Korfiatis, Erin E Carlson, William R Bamlet, Aishwarya Pradeep, Kelly Harper, Karen A Doering, Adriana Delgado, Bradley J Erickson, Ajit H Goenka, Naoki Takahashi, Ann L Oberg, Shounak Majumder |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 37 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |