A Study on Alzheimer’s Using Machine Learning

Abstract

Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia, defined as a general category for diseases affecting the brain’s activities and pathways. Alzheimer’s disease came about 100 years ago when Alois Alzheimer gave a lecture in Germany on the first case of what is now referred to as Alzheimer’s disease. He described the typical characteristics of the disease to include certain memory disturbances and instrumental signs. He, furthermore, showed a neuropatho-logical picture with military bodies, known as plaques, and dense bundles of fibrils, known as tangles. This discovery became one of the major breakthroughs of the disease that allowed for further research and findings (Blennow et al. 2006).