An AI program can outperform doctors at predicting which early dementia patients will progress to Alzheimer’s disease AI was about three times more accurate at predicting the progression to Alzheimer’s It also could identify the speed at which patients would progress to Alzheimer’s MONDAY, July 15, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- An AI program has proven better than doctors at sifting through the telltale signs that indicate who with early dementia will progress to Alzheimer’s disease, a new study says. AI predicted in 4 cases out of 5 when early dementia would either remain stable or worsen into Alzheimer’s, according to a report in the journal eClinical Medicine . Overall, AI was about three times more accurate at predicting the progression to Alzheimer’s than doctors armed with brain scans, cognitive testing and analysis of spinal fluid for telltale proteins like tau and amyloid, results show.
“We’ve created a tool which, despite using only data from cognitive tests and MRI scans, is much more sensitive than current approaches at predicting whether someone will progress from mild symptoms to Alzheimer’s – and if so, whether this progress will be fast or slow,” senior researcher Zoe Kourtzi , a professor of experimental psychology and computational cognitive neuroscience at the University of Cambridge in the U.K., said in a news release.
For the study, researchers built an AI model using brain scans and cognitive tests from 400 people participating in a U.S. .