Can Machine Learning advance or hinder statistical modelling of dementia risk in the Population.

Machine learning and Artificial intelligence is a rapidly growing area of health research in predicting individual and population disease risk. Predicting dementia in the population using neuropathology data is particularly challenged due to the lack of brain donation recourses. Machine learning is growing in popularity due to an increased focus on collecting health data and its powerful ability to compute complex statistics using smaller datasets while handling missing data.