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Fortune
Tristan Bove

A.I. can help diagnose Alzheimer's with 90% accuracy, study finds

A nurse assisting an elderly patient as both smile (Credit: Paola Giannoni via Getty Images)

Artificial intelligence is already revolutionizing everything from filmmaking to cybersecurity, and it could also be poised to create major breakthroughs in medicine that have stumped researchers for decades.

The use of A.I. in medicine has been growing in recent years, especially in diagnosing illnesses and diseases. A growing number of doctors already rely on deep learning, a machine learning method modeled on artificial neural networks to learn by example as human brains do, to help detect potentially life-threatening conditions that can be easily missed, such as cancer, heart disease, and even asymptomatic cases of COVID-19.

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