Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) volumetric measures have become a standard tool for the detection of incipient Alzheimer's Disease (AD) dementia in mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Focused on providing an earlier and more accurate diagnosis, sophist...
International journal of geriatric psychiatry
Apr 15, 2019
OBJECTIVES: The overall aim of the present study was to explore the role of cognitive reserve (CR) in the conversion from mild cognitive impairment (MCI) to dementia. We used traditional and machine learning (ML) techniques to compare converter and n...
Adequate medical images are often indispensable in contemporary deep learning-based medical imaging studies, although the acquisition of certain image modalities may be limited due to several issues including high costs and patients issues. However, ...
IEEE reviews in biomedical engineering
Mar 12, 2019
Dementia is a chronic and degenerative condition affecting millions globally. The care of patients with dementia presents an ever-continuing challenge to healthcare systems in the 21st century. Medical and health sciences have generated unprecedented...
INTRODUCTION: Using machine learning techniques, we developed a brief questionnaire to aid neurologists and neuropsychologists in the screening of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and dementia.
In recent years, there is a rapid increase in the population of elderly people. However, elderly people may suffer from the consequences of cognitive decline, which is a mental health disorder that primarily affects cognitive abilities such as learni...
Dementia is a neurological and cognitive condition that affects millions of people around the world. At any given time in the United Kingdom, 1 in 4 hospital beds are occupied by a person with dementia, while about 22% of these hospital admissions ar...
Annals of clinical and translational neurology
Dec 14, 2018
OBJECTIVE: Despite the critical importance of pathologically confirmed samples for biomarker validation, only a few studies have correlated CSF A42 values in vivo with postmortem Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology, while none evaluated the CSF A42/A4...
This study aims to systematically evaluate the efficacy of Pet robot intervention (PRI) for people with dementia. Two waves of electronic searches of the PubMed, EMBASE, Web of Science, Cochrane library, IEEE Digital Library and PsycINFO databases we...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Dec 5, 2018
Despite the increasing prevalence, growing costs, and high mortality of dementia in older adults in the U.S., little is known about the course of these diseases and what care dementia patients receive in their final years of life. Using a large volum...