Patent ID: 11883184
Assignee: TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY (TMU)
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A  G

Claim 0:
1. A method of predicting therapeutic effects of a treatment for cognitive impairment for an individual using the individual's predicted age difference (PAD), the method comprising:
(1) scanning the individual's brain with a scanning device so as to acquire at least one medical brain image at the beginning of the treatment;
(2) processing the medical brain image to obtain at least one feature of the image;
(3) generating a PAD value of the individual based on the at least one feature of the image;
(4) comparing the PAD value with a reference value and
(5) predicting the therapeutic effects of the treatment for cognitive impairment using a comparison result of the PAD value and the reference value.