AI model can detect multiple cognitive brain diseases from a single blood sample

"Our hope is to be able to accurately diagnose several diseases at once with a single blood test in the future," says Vogel, who led the study. He is an assistant professor, head of a research group, and part of the strategic research area MultiPark at Lund University.

The symptom profiles of different neurodegenerative diseases often overlap, and diagnosing age-related cognitive symptoms is complex. A patient may have multiple overlapping disease processes in the brain at the same time, for example, Alzheimer’s disease and Lewy body disease, especially in the early stages of cognitive decline. Now, researchers at Lund University have developed an AI model showing that it is possible to detect several neurodegenerative diseases from a single blood sample. Their paper is published in the journal Nature Medicine.

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