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AI and dementia research: Data overload and a shortage of experts

Dementia affects 57 million people worldwide, and AI is changing the pace of discovery in research aimed at helping them. Researchers face a volume of data that outstrips the number of experts available to interpret and integrate it. Despite their efforts, discovery is not keeping pace with the disease.

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AI and dementia research: Data overload and a shortage of experts
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What to know

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    There are 57 million people living with dementia worldwide.

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    Research teams face overwhelming data, limited specialist capacity to synthesize it and a discovery process that lags behind the disease.

Why it matters

Data-synthesis capacity and expert availability provide important context for understanding the pace of dementia research and the discussion of AI.

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