AI model offers earlier dementia warnings and better brain cancer detection

• The wellness of the brain plays an important role in living a long, healthy life.
• For this reason, being able to early detect — and possibly prevent — brain-related health issues like dementia, brain aging, and brain cancer is extremely important.
• Researchers at Mass General Brigham have developed a new AI model trained using data from brain MRI scans to help doctors better predict and detect brain health concerns like dementia risk, brain age, and brain tumor mutations.

As the brain is one of the most important organs in the body, its wellness plays an important role in living a long, healthy life. For this reason, being able to early detect — and possibly prevent — brain-related health issues like dementia, brain aging, and brain cancer is extremely important.

To help doctors better predict and detect brain health concerns like dementia risk, brain age, and brain tumor mutations, researchers at Mass General Brigham have developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) model trained on almost 49,000 brain MRI scans.

Researchers believe being able to analyze a large amount of data at one time may provide a better ability for doctors to identify, predict, and treat brain diseases.

A study on this new AI tool was recently published in the journal Nature Neuroscience.