Artificial Intelligence used at Mass General to identify patients at risk for Alzheimer's

BOSTON – Artificial intelligence could help identify people at risk for Alzheimer's disease.

AI is being studied as a way to identify patients at risk for lung cancer.

Now, researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital are using AI to identify people at risk for Alzheimer's disease. Using tens of thousands of routine brain scans, they have been able to train a model to detect Alzheimer's disease risk with more than 90% accuracy.

They're hoping this tool will allow clinicians to more accurately identify patients who might benefit from early treatment.

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Mallika Marshall, MD

Mallika Marshall, MD is an Emmy-award-winning journalist and physician who has served as the HealthWatch Reporter for CBS Boston/WBZ-TV for over 20 years. A practicing physician Board Certified in both Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, Dr. Marshall serves on staff at Harvard Medical School and practices at Massachusetts General Hospital at the MGH Chelsea Urgent Care and the MGH Revere Health Center, where she is currently working on the frontlines caring for patients with COVID-19. She is also a host and contributing editor for Harvard Health Publications (HHP), the publishing division of Harvard Medical School.

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