New Research Shows How Deep Learning Can Help Advance Neural Degeneration Studies – IAM Network

Artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning models can help advance research on neural degeneration, showing its capabilities in identifying and categorizing its forms on a model organism. Using the organism Caenorhabditis elegans or the roundworm – a 1-millimeter near-transparent nematode – researchers used deep learning to conduct a quantitative image-based analysis of neural degeneration patterns observed in the PVD neuron of the organism. Researchers from North Carolina State University have detailed their work in the journal BMC Biology, September 23. The worms were found alive last week in a biological container that was among the debris from the Space Shuttle Columbia recovered in East Texas. The worms are descendants of those that were part of an experiment that flew on Columbia's last mission before the spacecraft broke up on reentry February 1, killing all seven astronauts.