Exploring the Perspectives of Older Adults on a Digital Brain Health Platform Using Natural Language Processing: Cohort Study.

Journal: JMIR formative research
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Although digital technology represents a growing field aiming to revolutionize early Alzheimer disease risk prediction and monitoring, the perspectives of older adults on an integrated digital brain health platform have not been investigated.

Authors

  • Huitong Ding
    Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston University Chobanian, Boston, MA, United States.
  • Katherine Gifford
    Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston University Chobanian, Boston, MA, United States.
  • Ludy C Shih
    Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.
  • Kristi Ho
    Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston University Chobanian, Boston, MA, United States.
  • Salman Rahman
    Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston University Chobanian, Boston, MA, United States.
  • Akwaugo Igwe
    Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston University Chobanian, Boston, MA, United States.
  • Spencer Low
    Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston University Chobanian, Boston, MA, United States.
  • Zachary Popp
    Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston University Chobanian, Boston, MA, United States.
  • Edward Searls
    Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston University Chobanian, Boston, MA, United States.
  • Zexu Li
    Key Laboratory of Bioresource Research and Development of Liaoning Province, College of Life and Health Sciences, Northeastern University, Shenyang, 110819, China; National Frontiers Science Center for Industrial Intelligence and Systems Optimization, Northeastern University, Shenyang, 110819, China; Key Laboratory of Data Analytics and Optimization for Smart Industry, Northeastern University, Ministry of Education, Shenyang, 110819, China.
  • Sanskruti Madan
    Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston University Chobanian, Boston, MA, United States.
  • Alexa Burk
    Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston University Chobanian, Boston, MA, United States.
  • Phillip H Hwang
    Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.
  • Ileana De Anda-Duran
    School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, United States.
  • Vijaya B Kolachalama
    1Section of Computational Biomedicine, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118 USA.
  • Rhoda Au
    Boston University School of Medicine, rhodaau@bu.edu.
  • Honghuang Lin
    Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.