Artificial Intelligence can help in detecting Alzheimer.

Alzheimer is very dangerous and critical mental disease where the patients start forgetting recent events, sudden memory loss, etc. Its progression is exponential so a probable patient of Alzheimer may not know unless some major issues of his mental health occur. So the Alzheimer must be detected initially for a rapid cure before larger symptoms can make the cure almost impossible.

With the recent evolvement of Artificial Intelligence, machines can do incredible tasks which were previously seemed impossible. AI has now entering into medical sector. The accurate and unique algorithms of Artificial Intelligence can be applied in many types of machinery of the medical field.

MRI (Medical Resource Imaging) can now be integrated with AI’s algorithms which help to diagnose the mental diseases. Researchers are succeeded in developing a technique where we can determine the patient who is suffering from memory-deprivation diseases like Alzheimer.

Medical Scientists of VU University Amsterdam has confirmed that with the use of the technique we can diagnose the other forms of dementia, especially which requires special neuroradiology and with almost 89 percent accurate results.

Evolution in techniques.

However, there are already methods available that can detect dementia. Today, we use the methods to determine the potential threat that is growing inside a human’s brain. But doctors believe that the dysfunction of mind is already undergone before the actual symptoms take effect.

In previous studies, scientists have discovered that it is the perfusion (process of delivering blood to a tissue) that eventually leads to brain diseases. In other words, if perfusion is less than required then the person is likely to have dementia.

Alle Meije Wink, who is a senior experimenter, and his colleagues have come up with a technique that determines the perfusion. However, the technique is still under observation and currently cannot be applied in MRI.

In the general public exceptance, Alle also believes that very few people believe in the prediction done by the machine. Hence, it is evident that it took time for people to accept and believe in the machine.

As per the report of World Health Organization, in 2015, more than 46 million people across the world was suffering from dementia and more than 7 million new cases has been noticed every year. So we can say that if machines can help our doctors to diagnose and cure potential threats of our brain, then an increase of the dementia cases can be slowed down.


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