machine-learning-delivers-insight-stroke-patients

Researchers have used machine learning to identify how individual stroke patients might respond to different medications, based on the unique structure of their brain. An experiment by University College London (UCL) found that applying computer intelligence to data from from people who had suffered a stroke allowed researchers to see what effect drugs had on brains with varying patterns of damage. For the study, a machine learning algorithm was applied to CT and MRI scans of 1172 stroke patients and mapped the anatomical pattern of damage throughout the brain of each individual. The researchers then simulated the effects of certain hypothetical drugs, to see if any reactions that would have been missed by conventional methods could be identified. They found that the algorithm was particularly advantageous when looking at medication effects that reduced the size of lesions in patients' brains.