rounded mass of tissue in the lungs that can be seen on a chest computed tomography (CT) scan or X-ray as a white spot," explains Samir Shah, MD, an interventional radiologist and Chief Medical ...

Doctors discover most lung nodules incidentally during a CT scan or chest X-ray for another reason. They show up as white spots on the scan. According to the American Thoracic Society, doctors ...

It will look like a white spot against the backdrop of a black ... scan is often ordered if there is something abnormal on the chest X-ray. A CT scan takes a cross-sectional and a more detailed ...

A deep learning model was able to predict future lung cancer risk from a single low-dose chest CT scan, according to new research published at the ATS 2025 International Conference.