{"id":173103,"date":"2023-09-29T11:24:33","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T16:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/machine-learning-model-able-to-detect-signs-of-alzheimers-across-languages"},"modified":"2023-09-29T11:24:33","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T16:24:33","slug":"machine-learning-model-able-to-detect-signs-of-alzheimers-across-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/machine-learning-model-able-to-detect-signs-of-alzheimers-across-languages","title":{"rendered":"Machine learning model able to detect signs of Alzheimer\u2019s across languages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/machine-learning-model-able-to-detect-signs-of-alzheimers-across-languages2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The University of Alberta is 3rd in the world for AI research.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers meet the challenge of developing a model that uses speech traits to detect cognitive decline, paving the way for a potential screening tool.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers are striving to make earlier diagnosis of Alzheimer\u2019s dementia possible with a machine learning (ML) model that could one day be turned into a simple screening tool anyone with a smartphone could use.<\/p>\n<p>The model was able to distinguish Alzheimer\u2019s patients from healthy controls with 70 to 75 per cent accuracy, a promising figure for the more than 747,000 Canadians who have Alzheimer\u2019s or another form of dementia.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A machine learning model able to screen individuals with Alzheimer\u2019s dementia from individuals without it by examining speech traits typically observed among people with the disease could one day become a tool that makes earlier diagnosis possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Alberta is 3rd in the world for AI research. Researchers meet the challenge of developing a model that uses speech traits to detect cognitive decline, paving the way for a potential screening tool. Researchers are striving to make earlier diagnosis of Alzheimer\u2019s dementia possible with a machine learning (ML) model that could [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":701,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1512,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/701"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}