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AI model from Memorial Sloan Kettering identifies brown fat on PET-CT scans

Researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center built an AI tool to automatically detect brown adipose tissue (BAT) in 18F-FDG-PET-CT scans, expanding an existing patient cohort with a new dataset spanning April 2018 to July 2024. The retrospective study linked BAT presence to clinical and demographic data, including BMI and outdoor temperature, to examine associations with cardiometabolic disease risk.

nature.com · 2026-10-14

Large study links active brown fat to lower rates of diabetes and depression

A study of more than 100,000 people found that those with more 'active' brown fat—tissue that burns calories to generate heat—had lower rates of conditions including type 2 diabetes, depression and anxiety. Researchers used an AI model to measure active brown fat from medical scans and compared it against participants' health records. The findings were published in Nature.

nature.com · 2026-10-14