AI optical scans detect Parkinson’s 7 years in advance: researchers

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AI optical scans detect Parkinson’s 7 years in advance:  researchers

By Alex Mitchell
August 22, 2023

With the help of artificial intelligence, Parkinson’s disease can be predicted via eye scans with an average seven years of warning, according to researchers from London’s Moorfields Eye Hospital.

“This is the first time anyone has shown these findings several years before diagnosis,” per a hospital press release.

“This work demonstrates the potential for eye data, harnessed by the technology to pick up signs and changes too subtle for humans to see. We can now detect very early signs of Parkinson’s, opening up new possibilities for treatment,” added Moorfields ophthalmologist Alastair Denniston.

The high-tech 3-D scan — technically, an optical coherence tomography — takes “less than a minute” and produces an analysis of the patient’s retina “down to a thousandth of a millimeter,” according to the hospital.

“The retina provides a minimally invasive window into the central nervous system and can be imaged rapidly using modern high-resolution devices,” researchers stated, whereas detecting Parkinson’s via “brain imaging … is limited as a scalable resource.”

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/08/22/ai-optical-scans-detect-parkinsons-7-years-in-advance-researchers/