AI offers a glimmer of hope for Alzheimer’s

Scientists may heading back to the drawing board with drug targets for Alzheimer's, but they seem to be homing in on powerful new diagnostic tools in the meantime.

Some tangible progress seems to be underway in the field of artificial intelligence: Some scientists have developed algorithms that help parse the different forms of amyloid plaque, while others have developed machine learning tools that analyze medical images to predict the onset of the disease — potentially years before symptoms even begin.

Last week, MIT researchers unveiled AI that could predict, two years in advance, which patients might flunk a test that’s used to measure cognitive decline.

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