Source: horsetalk.co.nz | Repost Duerson Fund 3/22/2023 –
Researchers have used artificial intelligence (AI) to create what they call a paradigm shift in the study of brain injuries.
The fresh approach could ultimately lead to the design of new protective equipment or drive innovative treatments to aid healing.
Crucial to understanding brain injury is the ability to model the mechanical forces that compress, stretch, and twist the brain tissue, causing damage that can range from fleeting to fatal.
Researchers at California’s Stanford University have tapped AI to produce a profoundly more accurate model of how deformations translate into stresses in the brain.
They believe that their approach, reported in the journal Acta Biomaterialia, could reveal a more definitive understanding of when and why concussion sometimes leads to lasting brain damage, and other times not.
AI helped the researchers to choose among thousands of available computational models of mechanical stress on the brain.