Artificial Intelligence Could Predict Alzheimer’s Years Before Doctors

September 4, 2017

(US News & World Report) – Doctors may be no match for computers when it comes to Alzheimer’s. A study published in July in the journal Neurobiology of Aging found that artificial intelligence could detect signs of the disease in patient brain scans before physicians. The computer-based algorithm was able to correctly predict if a person would develop Alzheimer’s disease up to two years before he or she actually displayed symptoms. It was correct 84 percent of the time.