5 Things To Know About IBM’s AI Predictor For Alzheimer’s Disease
As many as 5.5 million Americans are estimated to have Alzheimer’s disease. Recent studies suggest it may be the third leading cause of death in the U.S. behind heart disease and cancer, according to U.S. Health and Human Services: National Institute on Aging. A team of researchers from IBM and Pfizer have designed an AI model that uses small samples of language data (obtained from clinical verbal cognitive tests) to help predict with 71 percent accuracy the eventual onset of Alzheimer’s disease within healthy people. [1] The research, published today in The Lancet eClinicalMedicine, advances the quest to predict Alzheimer’s in several…
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