A software tool called PredictAD developed by VTT Technical
Research Centre of Finland promises to enable earlier diagnosis
of the disease on the basis of patient measurements and large
databases. Alzheimer's disease currently takes on average 20
months to diagnose in Europe. VTT has shown that the new method
could allow as many as half of patients to get a diagnosis
approximately a year earlier. VTT has been studying whether
patients suffering from memory problems could be diagnosed with
Alzheimer's disease at an earlier stage in the light of their
measurement values. The study involved processing patient
measurements using VTT's PredictAD system, which was developed
to support clinical decision-making. The findings were published
in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease in November 2012. VTT has
developed a novel approach for measuring the state of the
patient reliably and objectively in cooperation with clinicians
of University of Eastern Finland and Copenhagen University
Hospital Rigshospitalet. The system c