Mayo Clinic and Google Research Developed a new Artificial intelligence algorithms help improve the treatment of brain diseases and movement disorders (such as Parkinson’s disease).
The first author of the study, Rochester-based neurosurgeon Dr. Kai Miller, said that the algorithm is called “basic contour curve recognition” and aims to help clinicians understand how different areas of the brain are connected and how they interact. The Mayo Clinic in Minnesota gave a telephone interview.
When placing electrodes during brain electrical stimulation (used to treat a variety of neurological diseases), it is necessary to understand how brain regions interact, especially when stimulating brain regions at the same time or when different brain regions need to be stimulated in coordination.
Miller explained that one way to understand how brain areas interact is to measure electrical signals from other areas of the brain while delivering small, short electrical pulses to one area of the brain.
“The basic question we face is-how do we understand how two brain regions interact from these electrical measurements and responses to stimuli,” he said. “When we measure these electrical signals or what we call electric potentials, it has a specific shape and time. We measure from many different brain regions.”
But there is no good mathematical technique to understand the electrical response of brain regions to stimuli.
Therefore, Miller contacted Dr. Klaus-Robert Mueller, a co-author of the study and a member of the Google Research Brain team.
“We see once a week [via Zoom] In a few months… and [together] Propose a new algorithm that can be used to understand these brain signals,” Miller said.
The algorithm can also be used to strengthen the treatment of mental illness in the future.
The researchers who developed the algorithm are getting others to pass Downloadable code package.
“Sharing the developed code is a core part of our efforts to help research reproducibility,” Dr. Dora Helms, a biomedical engineer and senior author at the Mayo Clinic, said in an email.
Although the development of the algorithm is not connected Mayo Clinic’s 10-year collaboration Cooperating with Google, this is part of the organization’s larger advancement of artificial intelligence.
“The work we are doing here is just one aspect of a larger plan… to really consider the next generation [patient] Nursing, this will be driven to a large extent by artificial intelligence,” said Miller of the Mayo Clinic.
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