Memorial Sloan Kettering

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

Study links sugar-heavy diets to worse gut microbiome damage during antibiotic treatment in transplant patients

Researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering tracked meal-by-meal food intake for adult stem cell transplant patients from 2017 to 2022, recording what percentage of each dish patients actually ate. The team then analyzed how these dietary patterns interacted with antibiotic exposure and gut microbiome recovery, using neutrophil engraftment and survival data as clinical outcomes.

nature.com · 2026-09-30