Скачать или смотреть Hao-Ting Wang - AI for brain biomarkers amongst neurodegenerative conditions

With the ageing of the Canadian population, neurodegenerative diseases are reaching epidemic levels. At present, it is not possible for clinicians to predict accurately if and when a patient with no symptoms or mild cognitive impairment will start experiencing debilitating symptoms of dementia given basic information such as age and sex. An early, reliable diagnosis could however dramatically increase the effectiveness of current and future interventions, such as lifestyle changes in exercise and nutrition. Magnetic resonance imaging is a promising technology to assist clinicians in making a precise diagnosis by providing a non-invasive window in the structure and function of the brain. The information found in these brain images is very rich and yet only partially applied in clinical practice. To understand what is the impact of age and sex on diagnostic brain markers, we need to see how brain markers vary in a large number of contexts and individuals with the help of AI.