Automated analysis of MR images may identify early Alzheimer's disease
Friday, May 22, 2009 - 09:07
in Health & Medicine
Analysing MRI studies of the brain with software developed at the Martinos Centre for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) may allow diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease and of mild cognitive impairment, a lesser form of dementia that precedes the development of Alzheimer's by several years. In their report that will appear in the journal Brain and has been released online, the MGH/Martinos team show how their software program can accurately differentiate patients with mild cognitive impairment or Alzheimer's disease from normal elderly individuals based on anatomic differences in brain structures known to be affected by the disease...
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