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Genetics and Health

Archive for the ‘Bio-informatics’ Category

February 24th, 2008

Computer diagnoses Alzheimer’s more accurately than blood tests

 
A Wellcome Trust study published in the journal Brain reports that a computer algorithm designed to diagnose Alzheimer’s from brain scans proved more accurate than the current standard — blood tests, family interviews, and clinicians looking at the brain scan themselves. The experiments were conducted by scientists at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuro-imaging at University College […]

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