Abstract:
The word dementia describes a set of symptoms that may include memory loss and difficulties with thinking, problem-solving or language. Dementia is caused when the brain is damaged by diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease or a series of strokes. Recent statistics show people suffering from this disease are increasing every year. The disease is prevailing very fast and death rate due to this disease is touching the sky. According to a recent study “An estimated 5.4 million Americans of all ages will have Alzheimer's disease in 2016.” Improving our ability to recognize dementia is a key first step toward improving this widespread situation. If this disease goes out of hand then a person may suffer from memory loss, loss of mobility, eating and weight loss, unusual behavior and many more. But dementia if diagnosed at an early stage, can be treated and slowed but cannot be cured or stopped.
The challenge for us was early diagnosis of dementia, so in order to cater this we bring you an android based gaming application that incorporates standard tests that are used by neuropsychiatrists in order to diagnose dementia. Tests like MMSE, Mini-cog, TYM, clock draw tests along with analytical reasoning tests are included in the game. The concept of this gaming application is to provide mobile users with an at hand application that can predict the chances of dementia based on user interaction and inputs during the whole course of game.
BrainFight includes few levels based on different tests which evaluate a person’s personality traits, cognitive strengths, analytical reasoning capabilities etc. At the end of each level, test’s scores are calculated and sent to Amazon server. At the server side, a machine learning algorithm “Naïve Bayes Classifier” is run on the data. The algorithm predicts the chances of a person having dementia in future.
