{"id":33403,"date":"2024-07-03T09:16:17","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T13:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/?page_id=33403"},"modified":"2025-11-03T12:34:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T17:34:19","slug":"wbur-reports-on-new-ai-method-for-early-prediction-of-alzeimers-disease","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wbur-reports-on-new-ai-method-for-early-prediction-of-alzeimers-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"WBUR reports BU researchers have developed an AI method for early prediction of Alzeimer&#8217;s disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Audio and transcription below:<\/strong><\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n\t<div class=\"wp-playlist wp-audio-playlist wp-playlist-light\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-playlist-current-item\"><\/div>\n\t\t<audio controls=\"controls\" preload=\"none\" width=\"640\"\n\t\t\t><\/audio>\n\t<div class=\"wp-playlist-next\"><\/div>\n\t<div class=\"wp-playlist-prev\"><\/div>\n\t<noscript>\n\t<ol>\n\t\t<li><a href='\/hic\/files\/2024\/07\/WBUR-l-Paschalidis-New-AI-method-predicts-Alzeimers-early-062624.wav'>WBUR - Paschalidis New AI method predicts Alzeimer's early (062624)<\/a><\/li>\t<\/ol>\n\t<\/noscript>\n\t<script type=\"application\/json\" class=\"wp-playlist-script\">{\"type\":\"audio\",\"tracklist\":true,\"tracknumbers\":true,\"images\":true,\"artists\":true,\"tracks\":[{\"src\":\"\\\/hic\\\/files\\\/2024\\\/07\\\/WBUR-l-Paschalidis-New-AI-method-predicts-Alzeimers-early-062624.wav\",\"type\":\"audio\\\/wav\",\"title\":\"WBUR - Paschalidis New AI method predicts Alzeimer's early (062624)\",\"caption\":\"\",\"description\":\"\\\"WBUR - Paschalidis New AI method predicts Alzeimer's early (062624)\\\".\",\"meta\":{\"length_formatted\":\"0:51\"},\"image\":{\"src\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.bu.edu\\\/hic\\\/wp-includes\\\/images\\\/media\\\/audio.png\",\"width\":48,\"height\":64},\"thumb\":{\"src\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.bu.edu\\\/hic\\\/wp-includes\\\/images\\\/media\\\/audio.png\",\"width\":48,\"height\":64}}]}<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\t\n<p><span>(WBUR, Boston &#8211; June 26, 2004) &#8212; Researchers at Boston University are exploring ways to use artificial intelligence to predict someone\u2019s risk of developing Alzheimer\u2019s. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>They ran voice recordings from the massive multi-year Framingham Heart Study through an AI model. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The technology was able to detect small differences in people\u2019s speech patterns. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The AI was able to correctly predict Alzheimer\u2019s nearly 80% of the time. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>BU Hariri Institute Director and Professor of Computing &amp; Data Sciences Yannis Paschalidis says this technology could be used to give people in rural areas access to diagnostic care. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cOnly those that are living in urban areas, fairly well-resourced, I think can afford and have proximity to experts to undergo this type of screening\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He says that he envisions the AI could be used in smart phone apps to make assessments and refer people to doctors for further testing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"># # #<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Audio and transcription below: (WBUR, Boston &#8211; June 26, 2004) &#8212; Researchers at Boston University are exploring ways to use artificial intelligence to predict someone\u2019s risk of developing Alzheimer\u2019s. They ran voice recordings from the massive multi-year Framingham Heart Study through an AI model. The technology was able to detect small differences in people\u2019s speech [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10316,"featured_media":33401,"parent":0,"menu_order":128,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33403"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33403"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33410,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33403\/revisions\/33410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}