Multiple sclerosis patients may one day have the option of having an intelligent camera system track the disease’s progress, using super-precise measurements of physical symptoms to enable better, faster and cheaper treatments.
Microsoft Corp.'s researchers teamed up with pharma giant Novartis AG to develop a system called AssessMS, which uses the company’s Kinect motion camera and machine learning software to track movements, analyzing things like gait and ability to touch one’s nose with a finger.
Multiple sclerosis, which affects 2.3 million people worldwide, is an incurable and unpredictable disease of the central nervous system.
