AI could spot early signs of Parkinson’s in images like these Movus/getty
Artificial intelligence can detect the early stages of Parkinson’s disease from brain scans. The hope is that this will lead to earlier diagnosis and treatments to slow the progression of the disease.
Parkinson’s disease is usually first noticed when people start to show visible tremors and lose some control of their motor movements. The disease is then confirmed with further tests involving injecting radioactive tracers into the body.
To see if artificial intelligence could do a better job, researchers at two Italian universities trained a machine…
