AI can diagnose you with this progressive disease

A tool available through smart home units can help diagnose people with Parkinson’s disease.

The AI-powered tool, called PARKdeveloped as part of a study by researchers at the University of Rochester.

According to the website, the tool urges users to perform a variety of web -based neurological tests in their own homes involving speech, facial expression and finger movements.

The data is then analyzed to detect if the user shows signs of Parkinson’s disease. Once the results have been given, the tool provides personal resources for treatment or care.

Newsweek Reports that the test asks users to recite two short sentences that use each letter of the alphabet at least once. Then in just seconds AI can analyze the recordings to look for patterns linked to the disease.

Customs have an 86% accuracy, per newsweek.

Park can be reached by all major browsers, but the researchers also note that it can be a useful tool for smart home units, such as Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant.

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“Although we have not established partnerships with these companies yet, our model is very easy and well suited for such integration,” data scientist Tariq Adnan told Newsweek.

“With appropriate privacy protection and the user’s consent, it can work passively or on-demand through such generally used home devices,” he added. “Once integrated, (in theory) a user can say something that” Screen me for Parkinson’s symptoms “, and the system would have a brief meaning to read aloud.”

The tool was trained with data from over 1,300 participants in home care settings, clinical settings and at Inmotion Parkinson’s disease care in Ohio, according to Newsweek. Possible indicators for the disease include expressing sound, break, breathing and adding “functions in unreasonability”, according to the computer science doctoral student Abdelrahman Abdelkader.

The researchers note that access to neurological care can be a barrier for people to get clinical diagnoses and believe that the tool can be used to encourage people to seek medical evaluation if they suspect they have the disease.

“We imagine a mild, user -centered experience. The tool would never deliver a diagnosis, rather just flag about a follow -up with a clinic can be worth it,” Adnan said.

Parkinson’s disease is characterized by the loss of nerve cells in the brain, per Mayo Clinic. It is unknown what causes the disease, although genes and environmental factors can play a risk.

The average beginning of Parkinson’s disease is about 70 years old.

Symptoms of the disease include memory loss, problems with language, feel irritable, have problems with chewing and swallowing and difficulties in sleeping.

Parkinson’s foundation says about 1.1 million people in the United States have the disease.