Using Advanced Technologies for Neurodegenerative diseases detection at national level

Abstract

Abstract As our society ages, neurodegenerative diseases become more important. Timely diagnosis of these diseases has a large impact on the efficacy of delaying treatments, and increasingly this diagnosis must become easier and lower cost, to be applied to more patients. In this paper we propose a nation-wide monitoring system, based on a cloud based approach supported over 5G networks. This system relies on a web-platform, named Brain Diagnosis, that resort to several serious games clinically validated to determine the performance of various cognitive functions, and been developed as a cognitive screening tool of the individuals in the community for early neurodegenerative detection. We describe the system view, infrastructure requirements at home and for the hospital remote support, communication system requirements, and software support required. We further discuss the validation process, and discuss the viability of Brain Diagnosis as a self-administrated instrument for continuous cognitive screening. The paper will finalize with an overall analysis of a national system aiming to deploy a neurological tracking infrastructure able to track large population effects, such as those expected from COVID19.