Future Direction of the Brain Dock

Abstract

  The brain dock is a kind of screening assessment of brain health started in Japan in 1988 for the detection of unruptured cerebral aneurysms and to search for the etiology and risk factors of silent brain infarction and cerebral white matter lesions. At present, early prevention of stroke and dementia is the main aim of the Japanese Brain Dock Society. In the future, we believe that artificial intelligence (AI) -based diagnostic technology will enable progress by using the large amount of accumulated brain dock data and will continue its development toward the establishment of further proper guidance.