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Early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is crucial in facilitating preventive care and delay progression. Speech based automatic AD screening systems provide a non-intrusive and more scalable alternative to other clinical screening…

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Individualized Alzheimer's disease (AD) progression prediction requires models that use irregular visits, account for censoring, avoid diagnostic leakage, and provide calibrated horizon risks. We propose PROgression-aware MultI-horizon…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Qing Lyu , Jeremy Hudson , Mohammad Kawas , Yuming Jiang , Chenyu You , Christopher T Whitlow

We present an approach to automatic detection of Alzheimer's type dementia based on characteristics of spontaneous spoken language dialogue consisting of interviews recorded in natural settings. The proposed method employs additive logistic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-27 Saturnino Luz , Sofia de la Fuente , Pierre Albert

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

The average life expectancy is increasing globally due to advancements in medical technology, preventive health care, and a growing emphasis on gerontological health. Therefore, developing technologies that detect and track aging-associated…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Saurav K. Aryal , Howard Prioleau , Legand Burge

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an irreversible neurode generative disease of the brain.The disease may causes memory loss, difficulty communicating and disorientation. For the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease, a series of scales are often…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-13 Yelu Gao , Huang Huang , Lian Zhang

Dementia encompasses a group of syndromes that impair cognitive functions such as memory, reasoning, and the ability to perform daily activities. As populations globally age, over 10 million new dementia diagnoses are reported annually.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-24 Marko Niemelä , Mikaela von Bonsdorff , Sami Äyrämö , Tommi Kärkkäinen

We present our submission to the ICASSP-SPGC-2023 ADReSS-M Challenge Task, which aims to investigate which acoustic features can be generalized and transferred across languages for Alzheimer's Disease (AD) prediction. The challenge consists…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Xuchu Chen , Yu Pu , Jinpeng Li , Wei-Qiang Zhang

Dementia is a growing problem as our society ages, and detection methods are often invasive and expensive. Recent deep-learning techniques can offer a faster diagnosis and have shown promising results. However, they require large amounts of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Anna Hlédiková , Dominika Woszczyk , Alican Akman , Soteris Demetriou , Björn Schuller

Alzheimer's disease (AD), defined as an abnormal buildup of amyloid plaques and tau tangles in the brain can be diagnosed with high accuracy based on protein biomarkers via PET or CSF analysis. However, due to the invasive nature of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Megan A. Witherow , Michael L. Evans , Ahmed Temtam , Hamid R. Okhravi , Khan M. Iftekharuddin

Timely and accurate assessment of cognitive impairment remains a major unmet need. Speech biomarkers offer a scalable, non-invasive, cost-effective solution for automated screening. However, the clinical utility of machine learning (ML)…

Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is an irreversible neurodegenerative disease characterized by progressive cognitive decline as its main symptom. In the research field of deep learning-assisted diagnosis of AD, traditional convolutional neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-15 Yang Ming , Jiang Shi Zhong , Zhou Su Juan

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common type of dementia accompanied with brain atrophy. Structural measurements of brain atrophy in specific brain structures such as hippocampus using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) have been reported…

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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the main cause of dementia which is accompanied by loss of memory and may lead to severe consequences in peoples' everyday life if not diagnosed on time. Very few works have exploited transformer-based networks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Loukas Ilias , Dimitris Askounis

Introduction: It is challenging at baseline to predict when and which individuals who meet criteria for mild cognitive impairment (MCI) will ultimately progress to Alzheimer's disease (AD) dementia. Methods: A deep learning method is…

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Alzheimer's disease is a progressive neurological disorder characterized by cognitive impairment and memory loss. With the increasing aging population, the incidence of AD is continuously rising, making early diagnosis and intervention an…

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Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease. Amnestic mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a common first symptom before the conversion to clinical impairment where the individual becomes unable to perform activities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-16 Donghuan Lu , Karteek Popuri , Weiguang Ding , Rakesh Balachandar , Mirza Faisal Beg

Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative condition that adversely affects cognitive abilities. Language-related changes can be automatically identified through the analysis of outputs from linguistic assessment tasks,…

Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is a severe illness that affects millions of people, and it is critical to diagnose this disorder as early as possible. Detecting depression from voice signals can be of great help to physicians and can be…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-28 Jinhan Wang , Vijay Ravi , Jonathan Flint , Abeer Alwan

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an irreversible and progressive brain disease that can be stopped or slowed down with medical treatment. Language changes serve as a sign that a patient's cognitive functions have been impacted, potentially…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-19 Sweta Karlekar , Tong Niu , Mohit Bansal