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Alzheimer's dementia (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder with cognitive decline that commonly impacts language ability. This work extends the paired perplexity approach to detecting AD by using a recent large language model (LLM), the…

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Normative modeling is an emerging and promising approach to effectively study disorder heterogeneity in individual participants. In this study, we propose a novel normative modeling method by combining conditional variational autoencoder…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Xuetong Wang , Kanhao Zhao , Rong Zhou , Alex Leow , Ricardo Osorio , Yu Zhang , Lifang He

Speech datasets for identifying Alzheimer's disease (AD) are generally restricted to participants performing a single task, e.g. describing an image shown to them. As a result, models trained on linguistic features derived from such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Aparna Balagopalan , Jekaterina Novikova , Frank Rudzicz , Marzyeh Ghassemi

We present a novel approach for determining learners' second language proficiency which utilizes behavioral traces of eye movements during reading. Our approach provides stand-alone eyetracking based English proficiency scores which reflect…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Yevgeni Berzak , Boris Katz , Roger Levy

The so-called Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) or cognitive loss appears in a previous stage before Alzheimer's Disease (AD), but it does not seem sufficiently severe to interfere in independent abilities of daily life, so it usually does…

Recently, machine learning techniques especially predictive modeling and pattern recognition in biomedical sciences from drug delivery system to medical imaging has become one of the important methods which are assisting researchers to have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-23 Saman Sarraf , Ghassem Tofighi

When humans read text, they fixate some words and skip others. However, there have been few attempts to explain skipping behavior with computational models, as most existing work has focused on predicting reading times (e.g.,~using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Michael Hahn , Frank Keller

Alzheimers Disease AD is an acute neuro disease that degenerates the brain cells and thus leads to memory loss progressively. It is a fatal brain disease that mostly affects the elderly. It steers the decline of cognitive and biological…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Nair Bini Balakrishnan , P. S. Sreeja , Jisha Jose Panackal

Alzheimer's disease (AD) has become one of the most significant health challenges in an aging society. The use of spoken language-based AD detection methods has gained prevalence due to their scalability due to their scalability. Based on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Junan Li , Yunxiang Li , Yuren Wang , Xixin Wu , Helen Meng

Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is an irreversible neurodegenerative disease affecting 50 million people worldwide. Low-cost, accurate identification of key markers of AD is crucial for timely diagnosis and intervention. Language impairment is one…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Tingyu Mo , Jacqueline C. K. Lam , Victor O. K. Li , Lawrence Y. L. Cheung

In visual object classification, humans often justify their choices by comparing objects to prototypical examples within that class. We may therefore increase the interpretability of deep learning models by imbuing them with a similar style…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Ayodeji Ijishakin , Ahmed Abdulaal , Adamos Hadjivasiliou , Sophie Martin , James Cole

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive brain disorder that causes memory and functional impairments. The advances in machine learning and publicly available medical datasets initiated multiple studies in AD diagnosis. In this work, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-20 Aidana Massalimova , Huseyin Atakan Varol

Structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies have shown that Alzheimer's Disease (AD) induces both localised and widespread neural degenerative changes throughout the brain. However, the absence of segmentation that highlights brain…

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Biomechanical modeling of tissue deformation can be used to simulate different scenarios of longitudinal brain evolution. In this work,we present a deep learning framework for hyper-elastic strain modelling of brain atrophy, during healthy…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-08-19 Mariana Da Silva , Carole H. Sudre , Kara Garcia , Cher Bass , M. Jorge Cardoso , Emma C. Robinson

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is known as one of the major causes of dementia and is characterized by slow progression over several years, with no treatments or available medicines. In this regard, there have been efforts to identify the risk of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Wonsik Jung , Eunji Jun , Heung-Il Suk

Dementia is a syndrome characterised by the decline of different cognitive abilities. Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is the most common dementia affecting cognitive domains such as memory and learning, perceptual-motion or executive function.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Juan Manuel Fernández Montenegro

Oculomotor alterations constitute a promising biomarker to detect and characterize Parkinson's disease (PD), even in prodromal stages. Currently, only global and simplified eye movement trajectories are employed to approximate the complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Juan Niño , Luis Guayacán , Santiago Gómez , Fabio Martínez

Deep learning has shown significant potential in diagnosing neurodegenerative diseases from MRI data. However, most existing methods rely heavily on large volumes of labeled data and often yield representations that lack interpretability.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Fangqi Cheng , Yingying Zhao , Xiaochen Yang

Objective: this study has a twofold goal. First, it aims to improve the understanding of the impact of Dementia of type Alzheimer's Disease (AD) on different aspects of the lexicon. Second, it aims to demonstrate that such aspects of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-18 M. Zakaria Kurdi

Current neuroimaging techniques provide paths to investigate the structure and function of the brain in vivo and have made great advances in understanding Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, the group-level analyses prevalently used for…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-05-31 Nanyan Zhu , Chen Liu , Xinyang Feng , Dipika Sikka , Sabrina Gjerswold-Selleck , Scott A. Small , Jia Guo