New AI program uses speech patterns to predict Alzheimers Disease and more [Video]

Medical Watch Digest for June 26

New AI Program Uses Speech Patterns To Predict Alzheimer’s Disease

A new AI tool has the power to detect Alzheimer’s by listening to the way someone speaks.

Boston University researchers used a machine learning model to analyze speech patterns.

With a high degree of accuracy, they were able to predict whether someone with mild cognitive impairment would develop Alzheimer’s dementia within six years.

Typically assessments to diagnose Alzheimer’s do not come back in time to make meaningful decisions about interventions to slow the progression of the mind robbing disease.

The AI program was nearly 80-percent accurate in determining whether someone would remain stable or fall into dementia associated with Alzheimer’s Disease.

Microrobot Pill & Inflammatory Bowel Disease TreatmentTiny smart robots may be able to reverse inflammatory bowel disease.

Engineers at the University of California San Diego developed a pill that, when swallowed, releases microbots into the colon.

So far it’s showing great promise in mice, reducing …