A.I. Diagnosis of A.D.
May 15, 2018 | Terry Sharrer
In a pilot study involving MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Laboratory and Harvard Medical School, residents of an assisted living facility (not diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease) are being monitored 24/7 for symptoms that could be early signs of A.D. (e.g. sleep disturbance, unsteady movement, unusual behavior). Everyday data is uploaded to the cloud to be machine analyzed. Certainly, this is one way to sort out the factors that could predict the disease’s onset and give information about how well medications may or may not be working. Ethicists, of course, might ask if elders in assisted living circumstances are fully capable of making informed consent decisions about data mining to this extent. MORE
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