Roundup: AI Alzheimer's Detection and Netflix Ad plans
Plus Ikea's Kreativ Augmented Reality and Shopify's useful NFT plans
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Machine Learning Algorithm Can Detect Alzheimer’s Disease Early
Scientists at Imperial College London published a paper in Nature Portfolio Journal, Communications Medicine describing a machine learning algorithm they developed to aid diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease.
The team adapted an algorithm that had been developed to classify cancer tumors.
They trained the algorithm on archived MRI scans of more than 400 patients with early and later stage Alzheimers, 80 patients being tested for alzheimer's and a control group of patients with other neurological conditions like Parkinson's or frontotemporal dementia.
They divided the brain into 115 regions and assessed each region for structural features like size, shape and texture. The algorithm was trained to identify when changes to these features predicted the existence of Alzheimer's disease.
They found it accurately detected alzheimer's in 98 percent of cases and could distinguish early and late stage in 79 percent of cases.
The system also detected changes in parts of the brain not previously associated with Alzheimer's disease, including the cerebellum and ventral diencephalon, which indicates new areas fro research the causes of the disease.
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