Astrophysics and AI key to early dementia diagnosis
December 2019
Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Brighton, United Kingdom
A computer program, developed at Brighton and Sussex Medical School together with astrophysicists, helps in early diagnosis of dementia. Using patient data from general practitioners, 70 indicators related to the onset of dementia and recorded in the five years prior diagnosis were found. This machine learning model identified 70% of dementia cases before the physician.
Identifying undetected dementia in UK primary care patients: a retrospective case-control study comparing machine- learning and standard epidemiological approaches
Elizabeth Ford
Added on: 07-07-2020
[1] https://bmcmedinformdecismak.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12911-019-0991-9[2] https://www.technologynetworks.com/neuroscience/news/astrophysics-and-ai-key-to-early-dementia-diagnosis-328618
