The Big Experiment
Ever wondered how technology start-ups, well, start-up? For most founder entrepreneurs, it is the biggest experiment they'll ever run. Like most experiments, the result isn't known beforehand and it often doesn't work first time. On a bigger scale, how do big tech companies turn innovative science into profit?
Mark Davison interviews founder scientists, executives, investors, communicators, and others in the technology start-up and corporate science ecosystems.
Learn how great ideas turned into thriving businesses (or not) from those who made it happen (or didn't). Get business tips, lessons learned, and life lessons straight from the people who know.
Inspiring, disastrous, funny: hear what life in a science-driven company is really like.
Straight-talking, no nonsense, but conversational style. All technical content is explained for the non-specialist - you don't need a PhD or fluency in jargon and technobabble.
The Big Experiment
Zoe Kourtzi: Artificial intelligence and predicting dementia
1 in 2 of us will be affected by dementia in our lives.
Something so prevalent without a cure requires novel approaches for diagnosis.
In this episode I am joined by Professor Zoe Kourtzi, from the University of Cambridge. Zoe is an expert in Cognitive Computational Neuroscience and a pioneer in translating Artificial intelligence to brain and mental health.
We discuss new approaches to diagnosing people at an earlier stage of dementia. She explains how her research combines brain sciences and computational sciences to understand how the brain works and what goes wrong in the case of disease.
Zoe gives insights into how AI can be used to predict dementia and what this early diagnosis can mean for patients and medical practitioners alike. Her work has the potential to improve the efficiency and efficacy of trials and lead to earlier interventions and treatments.
Something we will all benefit from.
“These models are three times more precise than the current standard of care” – Zoe Kourtzi
You’ll hear about:
01:04 - What does Zoe's research cover?
02:12 - Zoe's journey into science
09:15 - The flexibility of post-graduate study
10:17 - What an MRI can see in the brain
12:33 - The different types of dementia
14:49 - Life-style factors to help during warning signs
15:29 - How AI is helping patients
20:54 - The role ethnicity plays in dementia
26:55 - The accuracy of the model
31:08 - Handling the new population of diagnosed patients
33:54 - Taking this forward as a business
Follow Zoe:
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/zoe-kourtzi-45b59b19a/
Zoe’s work at Cambridge University - https://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/staff/professor-zoe-kourtzi
Connect with me:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markdavison100/
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