Screening for Mild Cognitive Impairment through Digital Biomarkers of Cognitive Performance in Games

Abstract

This extended abstract describes the ongoing "Dr. Solitaire" project, which explores the possibilities of commercial off-the-shelf games to detect mild cognitive impairment by means of digital biomarkers of cognitive performance. A toolkit using computer vision and image processing was built for the standard Microsoft Solitaire Collection to capture these digital biomarkers at real-time. Preliminary studies conducted to detect cognitive decline due to cognitive ageing imply that cognitive decline can be detected through card gameplay and that machine learning algorithms can be trained to detect the intricacies of cognitive decline.