ALZHEIMER'S EARLY DETECTION SYSTEM

Alzheimer is a disease which greatly impacts on affected patients and on their close relatives. Moreover, given the greater life expectation of the population, it is expected that its incidence will notably increase over the coming decades. For health care bodies, Alzheimer's is a huge challenge for two reasons: first, for the health budget it absorbs and, secondly, because there is still no effective treatment therapy. The current quest for therapies to tackle Alzheimer's disease is a prime research challenge which behoves the close collaboration of specialists from various medical spheres. In this sense, the Vicomtech-IK4 Technological Centre and the Bilbomatica and the eMedica companies are designing and developing a novel computer tool which seeks the early diagnosis of the condition. The main technological novelty incorporated into the platform is the capacity of the system to automatically propose diagnostic judgements, based on the results of all the medical tests undertaken to date on a specific patient, using latest-generation semantic technologies. SCIGURU