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Gulf Today Report

British researchers are developing an artificial-intelligence system for detecting dementia by only one scan/ picture of the brain years before the start of symptoms.

According to media, the test is still in the pre-clinical phase, and in the eventually it will officially launched. It will be a prominent step in the diagnosis of the disease.

This test depending on artificial intelligence can diagnose years before starting the first symptoms.

It depends on a precise comparison between a brain image of the person with image of brains thousands of dementia patients who are already diagnosed with the disease.

It can also alert on dementia, even if the human brain has been affected by any damage until the time of the test.

In the current time, a number of tests are needed to diagnose dementia.

Researchers at the Turing Institute Cambridge showed that medicines cannot curb the disease if not discovered early.

The scientific team says the discovery of dementia years before the symptoms, will allow doctors to delay the start of health disorder.

To ensure the effect of the test, an experiment will be launched on 500 suspected dementia persons, who think they have the disease or it will evolve in them.