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https://m.theepochtimes.com/sydney-researchers-build-dementia-predicting-technology_3591187.html

Researchers at the University of New South Wales believe they are one step closer to a tool capable of detecting the onset of incurable neurodegenerative diseases with great accuracy.

Results from a joint study by the University of NSW’s Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA) and the School of Computer Science and Engineering show that artificial intelligence models are able to predict a variety of dementias and Alzheimer’s disease.

“Using data from the Sydney Memory and Ageing Study we have found we are able to build models that predict the onset of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias with quite high accuracy,” Computer Scientist and lead author of the study, PhD Student Annette Spooner said.

Spooner noted that predicting the time until a person develops dementia is a critical tool in helping to understand the risks of dementia.

Spooner also noted that machine learning models can consider more data and a wider range of information to more accurately determine someone’s risk of developing the diseases.

“Machine learning can give more accurate results than traditional statistical methods when modelling high-dimensional, heterogeneous, clinical data,” Spooner said.

Previous analysis in this field used models that were for smaller data sets and did not perform well dealing with information that contained more variables than observations or inputs, commonly known as high dimensional data.