“AI救了他的命”

“AI救了他的命”：中国医生借助人工智能识别胰腺癌。

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🤔️小作业：

1. Which of the following best captures the central argument developed throughout the passage?

A. A.I. tools are replacing radiologists in diagnosing pancreatic cancer in China

B. Early detection of pancreatic cancer is now primarily dependent on large-scale screening

C. Artificial intelligence can overcome diagnostic limitations that previously made early detection impractical

D. Noncontrast CT scans are safer and more accurate than contrast CT scans

无注释原文：

In China, A.I. Is Finding Deadly Tumors That Doctors Might Miss

From: The New York Times

Three days after Qiu Sijun, a retired bricklayer in eastern China, went for a routine diabetes checkup, he received a call from a doctor he hadn't met before. The doctor, the head of the hospital's pancreatic department, wanted him to come in for a follow-up.

“I knew it couldn't be anything good,” Mr. Qiu, 57, recalled.

He was partly right. The bad news was that Mr. Qiu had pancreatic cancer. But there was good news, too: The tumor had been detected early. The doctor, Zhu Kelei, was able to remove it.

This was possible only because of a new artificial-intelligence-powered tool that the hospital was testing, which had flagged Mr. Qiu's routine CT scan before he had any symptoms. The tool is one example of how Chinese tech companies and hospitals are racing to apply A.I. to some of medicine's most stubborn problems.

Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest forms of cancer, with a five-year survival rate of around 10 percent, largely because early detection is so hard. Symptoms often do not appear until the cancer has advanced.

Tests used to confirm its presence, such as contrast CT scans, involve large amounts of radiation, so many experts advise against widespread screening. But lower-radiation alternatives, such as noncontrast CTs — in which no contrast dye is injected into patients' bloodstreams — produce less clearly defined pictures, making it hard for radiologists to identify abnormalities.

Artificial intelligence may change that. The tool at Dr. Zhu's hospital, which was developed by researchers affiliated with the Chinese tech giant Alibaba, was trained to look for pancreatic cancer in noncontrast CTs.

The tool is called PANDA, short for “pancreatic cancer detection with artificial intelligence.” At the hospital where Dr. Zhu works, the Affiliated People's Hospital of Ningbo University in eastern China, doctors started using it as part of a clinical trial in November 2024.

The tool has since analyzed more than 180,000 abdominal or chest CTs, helping doctors detect about two dozen cases of pancreatic cancer, 14 of which were in the early stage, Dr. Zhu said. The tool found 20 cases of ductal adenocarcinoma, the most common and deadliest type of pancreatic cancer. (Mr. Qiu had a neuroendocrine tumor, which is a rarer and less aggressive cancer.)

All of those patients had come to the hospital with complaints like bloating or nausea and had not initially seen a pancreatic specialist, Dr. Zhu said. Several of their CT scans had raised no alarms until they were flagged by the A.I. tool.

“I think you can 100 percent say A.I. saved their lives,” he said.

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注：完整题目见本文开头；中文文本为纽约时报官方译文，仅供参考

含注释全文：

In China, A.I. Is Finding Deadly Tumors That Doctors Might Miss

From: The New York Times

Three days after Qiu Sijun, a retired bricklayer in eastern China, went for a routine diabetes checkup, he received a call from a doctor he hadn't met before. The doctor, the head of the hospital's pancreatic department, wanted him to come in for a follow-up.

中国东部的退休泥瓦工邱嗣军去做了常规的糖尿病检查，三天后接到了一位素未谋面的医生来电。那位医生是这家医院胰腺科的主任，让他再来做一次复查。

bricklayer /ˈbrɪkˌleɪ.ər/ 表示“砌砖工；瓦工”，英文解释为“a person who builds walls or buildings using bricks, especially as a job”

diabetes /ˌdaɪəˈbiːtɪs, -tiːz/ 表示“糖尿病”，英文解释为“a disease in which the body cannot control the level of sugar in the blood.”

pancreatic /pæŋ.kriˈæt.ik/ 表示“胰脏的，胰腺的”，英文解释为“relating to the pancreas (= the organ in the body that produces insulin)”如：pancreatic cancer 胰腺癌。

“I knew it couldn't be anything good,” Mr. Qiu, 57, recalled.

“我知道，肯定是没有好东西的，”57岁的邱先生回忆说。

He was partly right. The bad news was that Mr. Qiu had pancreatic cancer. But there was good news, too: The tumor had been detected early. The doctor, Zhu Kelei, was able to remove it.

他只猜对了一半。坏消息是邱先生得了胰腺癌。好消息是肿瘤发现得很早。这位名叫朱柯磊的大夫成功地把它切除了。

美式 tumor 英式 tumour /ˈtʃuː.mər/ 表示“肿瘤；肿块”，英文解释为“a mass of diseased cells that might become a lump or cause illness”

This was possible only because of a new artificial-intelligence-powered tool that the hospital was testing, which had flagged Mr. Qiu's routine CT scan before he had any symptoms. The tool is one example of how Chinese tech companies and hospitals are racing to apply A.I. to some of medicine's most stubborn problems.

这都是因为医院当时正在测试一款新的人工智能工具——该工具在邱先生尚未出现任何症状前，就在他的常规CT扫描结果中标出了问题。这一工具是中国科技公司与医院竞相将人工智能应用于医学领域一些最棘手难题的一个实例。

flag /flæɡ/ 作动词，1）表示“给…做标记”，英文解释为“to put a mark on something so it can be found easily among other similar things”举个🌰：Flag any files that might be useful later. 给日后可能有用的文件做上标记。

2）表示“标记（计算机里某些信息，以便之后处理）”，英文解释为“to mark computer information with one of two possible values so that you can deal with it later”举个🌰：We'll flag the records of interest in the database and then we can give you a print-out. 我们会在数据库中把值得关注的纪录标记出来，之后打印一份给你。

3）表示“变得疲倦；兴趣衰减”，英文解释为“to become tired, weaker, or less effective”举个🌰：I was starting to flag after the ninth mile. 走了9英里后，我开始感到疲倦了。

stubborn /ˈstʌb.ən/ 1）表示“顽固的，执拗的，倔强的”，英文解释为“A stubborn person is determined to do what he or she wants and refuses to do anything else.”举个🌰：They have huge arguments because they're both so stubborn. 他们俩吵得很凶，因为他们两个人都很固执。

2）表示“难移动的；难改变的；难对付的”，英文解释为“Things that are stubborn are difficult to move, change, or deal with.”

Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest forms of cancer, with a five-year survival rate of around 10 percent, largely because early detection is so hard. Symptoms often do not appear until the cancer has advanced.

胰腺癌是最凶险的癌症之一，五年生存率仅约10%，很大程度上是因为早期发现极其困难。症状往往要等到癌症恶化之后才会出现。

Tests used to confirm its presence, such as contrast CT scans, involve large amounts of radiation, so many experts advise against widespread screening. But lower-radiation alternatives, such as noncontrast CTs — in which no contrast dye is injected into patients' bloodstreams — produce less clearly defined pictures, making it hard for radiologists to identify abnormalities.

增强CT扫描等确诊手段涉及大量辐射，因此许多专家不建议普及这种筛查。而低辐射替代方案——比如不注射造影剂的平扫CT——生成的图像清晰度较低，导致放射科医生难以识别异常病变。

radiation /ˌreɪ.diˈeɪ.ʃən/ 表示“（核）辐射”，英文解释为“a form of energy that comes from a nuclear reaction and that can be very dangerous to health”举个🌰：Many servicemen suffered radiation sickness after the early atomic tests. 很多军人在早期的原子弹试爆后患上了辐射病。

dye /daɪ/ 表示“染料”，英文解释为“a substance used to change the colour of something”举个🌰：She dipped the material into the dye. 她把布料浸在染料中。

inject /ɪnˈdʒekt/ 1）表示“投入；增添；引入，带来”，英文解释为“to introduce something new that is necessary or helpful to a situation or process”举个🌰：A large amount of money will have to be injected into the company if it is to survive. 如果要挽救这家公司就必须注入大量资金。

2）表示“（给…）注射（药物等）”，英文解释为“to put a drug or other substance into a person's or an animal's body using a syringe”举个🌰：Adrenalin was injected into the muscle. 往肌肉里注射了肾上腺素。

区分：

📍ingest表示“摄入；食入；咽下”，英文解释为“to take food, drugs, etc. into your body, usually by swallowing”举个🌰：The chemicals can be poisonous if ingested. 这些化学制品如果摄入体内可能会引起中毒。

补充：

📍digest表示“消化”，英文解释为“When you digest food, or it digests, it is changed into substances that your body can use”举个🌰：Humans cannot digest plants such as grass. 人不能消化草类植物。

radiologist /ˌreɪ.diˈɒl.ə.dʒɪst/ 表示“放射学家；放射医疗研究人员”，英文解释为“a person who specializes in radiology”

abnormality /ˌæb.nɔːrˈmæl.ə.t̬i/ 表示“（通常指身体的）反常；异常；变态；紊乱”，英文解释为“something abnormal, usually in the body”如：genetic/congenital abnormalities 遗传变异/先天畸形。

Artificial intelligence may change that. The tool at Dr. Zhu's hospital, which was developed by researchers affiliated with the Chinese tech giant Alibaba, was trained to look for pancreatic cancer in noncontrast CTs.

人工智能也许会改变这一切。朱柯磊所在医院使用的这款工具由中国科技巨头阿里巴巴集团的研究人员开发，经过训练后可用于在平扫CT中识别胰腺癌。

affiliate /əˈfɪliət/ 作名词，表示“附属机构；分支机构；分公司；分会”，英文解释为“a company, an organization, etc. that is connected with or controlled by another larger one”如：an affiliate of the university 大学的隶属机构/分支机构。

作动词，表示“使并入，使隶属（较大的团体或组织）；使紧密联系”，英文解释为“to cause a group to become part of or form a close relationship with another, usually larger, group, or organization”如：a college affiliated to Zhejiang University 浙江大学附属学院；举个🌰：The hospital is affiliated with the local university. 这家医院附属于当地大学。

顺便看下几个“xx附中”怎么说？

📍北京大学附属中学 The Affiliated High School of Peking University

📍清华大学附属中学 Tsinghua University High School

📍中国人民大学附属中学 The High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China

📍浙江大学附属中学 The High School Attached to Zhejiang University

The tool is called PANDA, short for “pancreatic cancer detection with artificial intelligence.” At the hospital where Dr. Zhu works, the Affiliated People's Hospital of Ningbo University in eastern China, doctors started using it as part of a clinical trial in November 2024.

这款名为PANDA（“人工智能胰腺癌检测系统”的缩写）的工具，于2024年11月在朱柯磊所在的宁波大学附属人民医院投入临床试验。

clinical trial /ˌklɪn.ɪ.kəl ˈtraɪ.əl/ 表示“临床试验”，英文解释为“a scientific test of the effectiveness and safety of something such as a drug or medical treatment, which involves using it with patients in a controlled way”举个🌰：Scientists are conducting large-scale clinical trials to test whether aspirin can reduce the risk of bowel cancer. 科学家们正在开展大规模临床试验，研究阿司匹林是否能降低大肠癌风险。

The tool has since analyzed more than 180,000 abdominal or chest CTs, helping doctors detect about two dozen cases of pancreatic cancer, 14 of which were in the early stage, Dr. Zhu said. The tool found 20 cases of ductal adenocarcinoma, the most common and deadliest type of pancreatic cancer. (Mr. Qiu had a neuroendocrine tumor, which is a rarer and less aggressive cancer.)

据他介绍，到目前为止，这个工具已经分析了逾18万例腹部或胸部CT，帮助医生发现了二十多例胰腺癌，其中14例为早期。工具共发现了20例胰腺导管腺癌——这是最常见、也最致命的一种胰腺癌。（邱先生所患的神经内分泌肿瘤则属较罕见且侵袭性较低的类型。）

All of those patients had come to the hospital with complaints like bloating or nausea and had not initially seen a pancreatic specialist, Dr. Zhu said. Several of their CT scans had raised no alarms until they were flagged by the A.I. tool.

朱柯磊指出，这些患者均因腹胀或恶心等症状就诊，一开始并未接受胰腺专科检查。其中多例CT影像在经AI工具标记前未引发任何警报。

bloating /ˈbləʊ.tɪŋ/ 表示“胃气胀”，英文解释为“a condition in which the stomach swells and feels full and uncomfortable”举个🌰：He suffered from indigestion and bloating. 他患有消化不良和胃气胀。

nausea /ˈnɔːzɪə, -sɪə/ 表示“恶心，呕吐感”，英文解释为“the feeling that you have when you think you are going to vomit (= bring food up from your stomach through your mouth)”

类似的：

📍sickness表示“恶心；呕吐”，英文解释为“the feeling that you are about to bring up food from your stomach, or the act of bringing food up”

“I think you can 100 percent say A.I. saved their lives,” he said.

“这些人我可以说百分之一百是AI救了他的命，”他表示。

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