Computers are able to diagnose Alzheimer's disease faster and more accurately than experts. The advantage of using computers is that they prove cheaper, faster and more accurate than the current method of diagnosis. The new method makes an objective diagnosis without the need for human intervention. This will be particularly attractive for areas of the world where there is a shortage of trained clinicians and when a standardised reliable diagnosis is needed, for example in drug trials. The next step is to see whether we can use the technique to reliably track progression of the disease in a patient. This could prove a powerful and non-invasive tool for screening the efficacy of new drug treatments speedily, without a need for large costly clinical trials

No offense but as a physican in the medical field, I find your assertions a bit too....callow. I also do not understand how this can be financially, and outcome-wise any better than an experienced, caring physician?

You do not eve explain the methodology and even if there was such magical machine which could diagnose error-free, it be costly to maintain, buy, and very limited. a physican learns an array of all kinds of disease and not just Alzeimers.

Also part of what we do in the medical field is containment of symptoms. Diagnosis is only part of the challenge.

As a programmer, I find it amazing what people claim a computer can do.

You do realize that computers are programmed by humans - right?