AI Cracks Brain's Sex Code: 90% Accuracy in Predicting Sex from Brain Scans
An AI model can accurately determine the sex of a person from brain scans with over 90% success, suggesting significant sex differences in brain organization. This opens new avenues for studying sex-specific vulnerabilities in brain disorders.
Summary
- Researchers developed an AI model that can determine the sex of a person from brain scans with over 90% accuracy.
- This suggests that there are significant sex differences in brain organization.
- The AI model identified the default mode network, striatum, and limbic network as being important for distinguishing between male and female brains.
- This research could help us to better understand sex-specific vulnerabilities in brain disorders.
- The AI model could also be used to develop new treatments for brain disorders.
The researchers also found that the AI model could be used to predict how well people would do on certain cognitive tasks based on their sex. This suggests that sex differences in brain organization may have important behavioral implications.
The researchers plan to make their AI model publicly available so that other researchers can use it to study sex differences in the brain.
This research was funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Transdisciplinary Initiative, the Uytengsu-Hamilton 22q11 Programs, the Stanford Maternal and Child Health Research Institute, and the NARSAD Young Investigator Award.