Saturday 04 / May / 2024
Muscat: Using artificial intelligence, an Omani research team has developed a programme to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease and also to determine its degree of severity.
Researcher Salma Sulaiman Al Hinai said, “The team applied 4IR techniques to help patients who suffer from the disease, which leads to exacerbated nervous disorder and a waste-away (atrophy) and death of brain cells—the most common manifestations of dementia.”
The research project has been funded by the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation to help provide practical solutions for the health sector, limit the scope of the disease and ameliorate patient conditions, said Salma.
Through up-to-date resonance imaging, the research team has determined the extent to which brain tissues are affected.
The application reveals cells’ neuronal death and saves the time and effort of the radiologist. She said the early detection of the nervous disorder is as important as the diagnosis of the disease, which would help radiologists working at the Sultanate’s hospitals to understand the severity of the death of cells within a relatively short time and effort compared to clinical examinations.
The application automatically divides the brain tissues to have the size of tissue in Pixel using the digital image computing techniques, she said. The brain image is obtained through resonance imaging and the use of digital image computing techniques and that the images are dealt with using erosion and dilation application, she said.
