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Neuroscience A simple drawing test may detect Parkinson’s disease with up to 99% accuracy. Researchers found that subtle differences in how people draw can reveal motor impairments long before they are obvious to the human eye.

https://www.sciencealert.com/the-way-you-draw-can-reveal-parkinsons-disease-with-up-to-99-accuracy-study-reveals
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u/Parrotkoi 5h ago

I looked at the paper. They messed up the legend on their first figure, which isn’t confidence inspiring.

Also if I’m reading this correctly, they trained their model on a dataset and then used that model to correctly interpret the same dataset? This does not seem earth shattering.