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Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare Applications: detecting Alzheimer’s through handwriting analysis

27 Oct, 2022
11h00
INE Auditorium of NOVA IMS

Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare Applications: detecting Alzheimer’s through handwriting analysis

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Alzheimer’s disease (AD) affects millions of people worldwide, and it is expected that its incidence will dramatically increase in the next few decades. Unfortunately, this disease cannot be cured, but an early diagnosis can help to better manage its symptoms and progression. Handwriting is one of the first skills to be affected by the onset of AD. For this reason, in the last few years, there has been an even growing interest of researchers to apply artificial intelligence (AI) based approaches to effectively identify the handwriting of people affected by AD.

These approaches are based on the collection of handwriting data, which can be acquired through simple and non invasive handwriting tests, to be performed using cheap smartpads. Thanks to the project HAND (Handwriting Analysis against Neuromuscular Disease), the University of Cassino collected a dataset from more than 170 people (Alzheimer’s patients and healthy people) which is the largest currently publicly available in the field of handwriting analisys for AD detection in terms of number of participants involved and tasks performed. 

The researchers from Cassino are using  this data to implement and test several AI techniques with the aim of developing a system for the screening of people affected by AD based on handwriting analisys. In this talk I will discuss the main results achieved by the HAND project, future ideas and the challenges in transforming  it into an AI-based tool to improve the daily lives of elderly people and their families.

About the Lecturer

Francesco Fontanella

Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, Italy

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Francesco Fontanella is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering of the University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Italy. He is the author of over 80 research papers, published in scientific journals and international conference proceedings. In his research activity, he mainly deals with the resolution of artificial intelligence and machine learning  problems by means of evolutionary algorithms.

Location

The lecture will take place at the INE Auditorium of the NOVA IMS, on Campus de Campolide, in Lisbon.

Event Wrap Up

On October 27th, a lecture under the theme "Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare Applications: detecting Alzheimer's through handwriting analysis" took place at the INE auditorium, at 11 a.m., with the participation of Francesco Fontanella, assistant professor at the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, in Italy.

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