To close this care gap, researchers from St. Paul's Hospital and National Taiwan University have demonstrated how AI can leverage routine chest X-rays to detect asymptomatic bone loss, closing critical gaps in screening healthy Asian populations.
Their paper is published in the journal npj Digital Medicine.
Since chest X-rays are already universally performed during routine health examinations across Asia, this AI approach provides a practical, infrastructure-light strategy to expand opportunistic screening.
It actively flags at-risk men and younger individuals outside standard guidelines without adding patient burden or cost.
Strikingly, the study found that more than half of the confirmed abnormal bone-density cases occurred in people with a normal body mass index (BMI).
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