Brain Dynamics Uses Artificial Intelligence to Stop Alzheimer’s
The Brain Dynamics Andalusian company develops a draft IDI, co-funded by the Technological Corporation of Andalusia (CTA) and the Agency for Innovation and Development of Andalusia (IDEA), to achieve a method of early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s based on an artificial intelligence system in creating a map of the brain. In this sense, CTA said that the company developed a brain mapping Malaga average healthy population and a population with Alzheimer’s and a system based on artificial intelligence to interpret it.
The system, called ‘e-BA “(” Knowledge Access Electronic Brain’), uses artificial intelligence to obtain diagnoses and other relevant information from a large database that includes images of the brains of nearly 2,000 people, more than 2000 nearly 3,000 scientific papers and previous studies. The project, involving research groups ‘Computational Intelligence and image analysis’ and ‘Nervous control of breathing, movement and emotions’, both from the University of Malaga. Therefore, the second working group is currently in the second phase of validation of the system ‘e-BA’, which has already achieved 90 percent accuracy in diagnosing Alzheimer’s early, early stage in which the effectiveness of preventive treatment “could be maximum.”
CTA pointed out that the services ‘e-BA’ will allow a better understanding of the evolution of the structure of normal human brain in terms of age, their aging and the neurodegenerative process of Alzheimer’s disease. Thus, risk indicators may be used for the disease and facilitate early diagnosis, since it can distinguish the evolutionary process of normal brain aging and the pathologic. “The goal is to lower the current diagnostic costly processes and increase longevity and quality of life of patients, the disease can be treated in the early stages,” he added.
TOOL SUPPORT
The system ‘e-BA’ will allow the practitioner to compare the data for a particular patient with the knowledge stored in the average brain maps, consisting of a large database containing information on changes in brain structure based on various parameters such as age, sex, sociocultural level, among others, in healthy subjects and Alzheimer patients. Therefore, it can be used as a support tool for the diagnosis, decision making in clinical, research and teaching.
He explained that there is no single brain representative of the entire population, nor a method of “simple” to build half anatomy or represent the different variations on it. Moreover, the structure of the human brain is “so complex and so different from one person to another” that the development of the average brain maps requires the application of very different technologies in computer vision and artificial intelligence for collection, processing and interpretation of a wealth of information, for the normalization of the images and to merge the images of diverse individuals in a single (average brain map).
The map or atlas brain develops Brain Dynamics accumulate brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI, Magnetic Resonance Imaging) and tractography of the brain (images of brain connections) of almost 2,000 people of different ages, gender or socio-cultural level, among others, both Alzheimer patients and healthy individuals. The application of artificial intelligence techniques and processing techniques enable the processing of natural language, compare and evaluate information in a user-friendly.
Thus, it is intended that access to this knowledge is done through natural language, rather than using keywords or other codes “less comfortable” driving to the professionals. In addition, develop a system to access information through the web, viewing and management as simple as possible, in order to provide the maximum diagnostic work.
This new noninvasive diagnostic method developed by Brain Dynamics could be applied to other neurological and psychiatric diseases.
According to estimates provided by CTA, about 24.2 million people with dementia worldwide, with 4.6 million new cases annually. This figure is expected to double every 20 years, so it is expected to reach 80 million people with dementia in 2040.