Researchers in Scotland hope to develop a set of artificial intelligence (AI) tools that can predict the risk of dementia in their patients. To do so, they will compare up to 1.6 million CT and MRI scans with linked public health records to find patterns that could help doctors better predict someone’s risk of developing dementia.
At the University of Edinburgh and the University of Dundee, a team of scientists working as part of a global research effort called NEURii is preparing to collect the data. The CT and MRI scans have been collected from patients in Scotland over more than a decade. Using AI and machine learning, the team hopes to develop a suite of tools that radiologists can use as a standard reference when examining new scans.
