Posts Tagged ‘Framingham Heart Study’
Fully-automated analysis of voice recordings–from neuropsychological tests–found to help differentiate normal cognition from dementia and mild cognitive impairment
Voice Recordings Spot Cognitive Impairment (MedPage Today): A machine-learning model identified mild cognitive impairment and dementia from digital voice recordings of neuropsychological tests, an early study showed. Among 1,084 people in the Framingham Heart Study whose tests were recorded, the average area under the curve (AUC) reached 92.6% for differentiating normal cognition from dementia, 88.0% for…
Read MoreStudy: Artificial intelligence program identifies linguistic markers that predict, with 70% accuracy, who gets Alzheimer’s Disease years later
Alzheimer’s Prediction May Be Found in Writing Tests (The New York Times): … the researchers looked at a group of 80 men and women in their 80s — half had Alzheimer’s and the others did not. But, seven and a half years earlier, all had been cognitively normal.
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