AI and machine learning facilitate pioneering research on Parkinson's

A long-sought understanding of Parkinson's Disease (PD) will be revealed at Friday's 2020 Machine Learning for Healthcare Conference. In early 2019, IBM Research and The Michael J. Fox Foundation (MJFF) announced plans to collaborate and use artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to decode the elusive and complex mysteries surrounding PD symptoms and progression. IBM and the MJFF have built an innovative disease progression model that helps clinicians more accurately pinpoint the exact status of a PD patient's progression. Despite PD's first identification more than a century ago in 1817, how it affects patients during the course of the disease has been an undertaking that previously evaded both doctors and researchers. Yet many questions about the chronic disease remain unanswered, but a better understanding through clinical trials can improve patient-care management and more efficient development of mitigating drugs.