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The AI that spots Alzheimer’s from cookie drawing – BBC News
The machine learning system analysed speech patterns to predict who would develop the disease
By Jane WakefieldTechnology reporter
image captionThe AI analysed responses to what is happening in this picture
A dated line drawing of two children stealing cookies behind their mother’s back is being used by an artificial intelligence system to detect the onset of Alzheimer’s disease.
The system uses voice samples of people describing the scene to predict whether healthy people may get the disease.
It could predict onset seven years earlier than human doctors with 70% accuracy.
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