Health
The AI that spots Alzheimer’s from cookie drawing – Yahoo News Australia
The machine learning system analysed speech patterns to predict who would develop the disease
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.
The UK’s Alzheimer’s Society said the research was encouraging.
Fiona Carragher, director of Research at the Alzheimer’s Society,…
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