UNC researchers use AI to predict autism by comparing baby brain scans

Posted Feb 28, 2017
A team of University of North Carolina researchers has developed a way to potentially predict autism in children as young as 6 months old using artificial intelligence. Using decades-old research that found a correlation between infant brain volume to autism diagnosis, researchers developed a high-tech method for diagnosing autism spectrum disorder in young children. (Raleigh News & Observer)

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