Artificial intelligence predicts who will develop dementia in two years

A new British artificial intelligence system can predict with up to 92% accuracy which people with memory problems will eventually develop dementia within the next two years. This is another indication that artificial intelligence has enormous potential that makes it possible to diagnose various diseases at an early stage. The goal is not only to diagnose impending dementia early, but also to reduce the number of people who are misdiagnosed with dementia. Researchers at the University of Exeter, led by Professor David Llewellyn, who published the study in the American medical journal JAMA Network Open, used data from 15,307 people with an average age of 72 with memory problems (of whom 1,568 had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease or another form of Alzheimer's disease). The "intelligent" system has learned to detect clues hidden in the data, which the human eye, even a neurologist or other specialist, cannot recognize.