The search for an ALS cure, which has remained a mystery to the health care community, is now being sought out with the help of artificial intelligence.
AI is being used to better coordinate all the data doctors have on the neurological disorder – trying to better match patients and treatments.
“Hard to find a cure, hard to find a treatment, but you have all the data lying around and all the practices of clinicians engrained in them, and then you have a machine kind of tease out what works,” said Dr. Priyadip Ray, a staff scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Inside Seqster, an AI startup focusing on health care, they’re optimistic that the medical community is getting closer to a cure.
“Can AI decipher faster than 100 data scientists? Probably, as long as we’re feeding it the right ALS data,” Seqster CEO Ardy Arianpour said.
NBC Bay Area’s Scott Budman has more in the video report above.