New brain scan technology can detect early-stage Alzheimer's with near 100% accuracy

New brain scan technology can detect early-stage Alzheimer's with near 100% accuracy A new machine learning powered brain scan can detect when a person has early stage Alzheimer's with near perfect accuracy, and researchers are hopeful it will become available for use in the coming years.

Researchers at the Imperial College London, in the UK, used an algorithm that already existed to detect cancerous tumors, and repurposed it to detect early Alzheimer's with 98 percent accuracy. The Daily Mail

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• A predictive model using the mesoscopic architecture of the living brain to detect Alzheimer’s disease (open access) Nature Communications Medicine