Entelai, with the participation of specialists from COCOCET and the basis for the fight against neurological childhood diseases (Fleni), developed a virtual assistant to a very accurate, fast and easy -to improve the diagnosis of diseases that affect muscle coordination.
Thus, the application is aimed at providing support tools in a neurological consultation in order to improve the medical approach of patients with chronic ataxia, that is, they suffer from changing the march, balance and coordination of voluntary movements and are generated by cerebellum dysfunction and their methods.
Similarly, chronic ataxia is part of a heterogeneous group of more than 300 diseases that affect children and adults who create important diagnostic problems from their clinical and genetic heterogeneity.
“Our study suggests that AI through a virtual assistant can help in the diagnostic process of chronic ataxi and could become a tool for useful support in neurological consultations,” said Malko Rossi, one of the leaders of the workers, a cabinet researcher and a neurologist specializing in the abnormal movements of Phoen.
Modeling a prototype of a virtual assistant.
Virtual assistant of neurological consultations: how it works
A prototype with a diagnosis of more than 90 percent of successes of more than 400 clinical cases and soon, using improvements and adjustments, it will be available to the medical community.
The design of the virtual assistant was based on an exhaustive analysis of clinical and genetic medical literature (OMIM, Orphanet, Pubm Publications and other resources) on chronic ataxia; development of advanced algorithms; Solutions (automatic training system used to make decisions and data classification) and large language models that will be used in instant messages.
The virtual assistant analyzes information as the age of symptoms, the inheritance pattern and the related clinical manifestations and offers a list of differential diagnoses.
Virtual assistant of neurological diagnoses: what are its advantages
While a virtual wizard reached 90.9 percent of hits, 21 neurologists specializing in movement disorders, which they carry out in various provinces of Argentina and other countries of America, such as Colombia, Mexico and Canada, reached only 18.3 percent of success, which received 19.4 percent similar.
For Lucas Alessandro, also the leader of the research and neurologist Fleni, the virtual assistant “can be a quick tool for consultations for neurologists, avoiding difficulties in finding various sources of adequate information.”
In addition, Russia added that “the presence of a list of differential diagnoses provided by a virtual assistant that reduces possible ataxia is especially useful in regions with limited resources, since it allows you to optimize resources in more limited additional research and potentially make the best decisions regarding the request for genetic studies.”