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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…

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The ADReSS Challenge at INTERSPEECH 2020 defines a shared task through which different approaches to the automated recognition of Alzheimer's dementia based on spontaneous speech can be compared. ADReSS provides researchers with a benchmark…

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Alzheimers disease (AD) is a severe neurological brain disorder. It is not curable, but earlier detection can help improve symptoms in a great deal. The machine learning based approaches are popular and well motivated models for medical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-17 Lilia Lazli

We propose an automatic detection method of Alzheimer's diseases using a gated convolutional neural network (GCNN) from speech data. This GCNN can be trained with a relatively small amount of data and can capture the temporal information in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-04-02 Tifani Warnita , Nakamasa Inoue , Koichi Shinoda

With the global population aging rapidly, Alzheimer's disease (AD) is particularly prominent in older adults, which has an insidious onset and leads to a gradual, irreversible deterioration in cognitive domains (memory, communication,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-15 Jinchao Li , Kaitao Song , Junan Li , Bo Zheng , Dongsheng Li , Xixin Wu , Xunying Liu , Helen Meng

Using picture description speech for dementia detection has been studied for 30 years. Despite the long history, previous models focus on identifying the differences in speech patterns between healthy subjects and patients with dementia but…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Youxiang Zhu , Nana Lin , Xiaohui Liang , John A. Batsis , Robert M. Roth , Brian MacWhinney

Transfer learning has been widely utilized to mitigate the data scarcity problem in the field of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Conventional transfer learning relies on re-using models trained on AD-irrelevant tasks such as natural image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-18 Kai Tzu-iunn Ong , Hana Kim , Minjin Kim , Jinseong Jang , Beomseok Sohn , Yoon Seong Choi , Dosik Hwang , Seong Jae Hwang , Jinyoung Yeo

Early and accessible detection of Alzheimer's disease (AD) remains a major challenge, as current diagnostic methods often rely on costly and invasive biomarkers. Speech and language analysis has emerged as a promising non-invasive and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-06 Franziska Braun , Christopher Witzl , Florian Hönig , Elmar Nöth , Tobias Bocklet , Korbinian Riedhammer

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

INTRODUCTION: Advanced machine learning methods might help to identify dementia risk from neuroimaging, but their accuracy to date is unclear. METHODS: We systematically reviewed the literature, 2006 to late 2016, for machine learning…

The most frequent kind of dementia of the nervous system, Alzheimer's disease, weakens several brain processes (such as memory) and eventually results in death. The clinical study uses magnetic resonance imaging to diagnose AD. Deep…

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Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is a severe brain disorder, destroying memories and brain functions. AD causes chronically, progressively, and irreversibly cognitive declination and brain damages. The reliable and effective evaluation of early…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-07 Kuo Yang , Emad A. Mohammed

Text-to-image models generate highly realistic images based on natural language descriptions and millions of users use them to create and share images online. While it is expected that such models can align input text and generated image in…

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Speech disorders often occur at the early stage of Parkinson's disease (PD). The speech impairments could be indicators of the disorder for early diagnosis, while motor symptoms are not obvious. In this study, we constructed a new speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-01 Hao Fang , Chen Gong , Chen Zhang , Yanan Sui , Luming Li

Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is a significant and growing public health concern. Investigating alterations in speech and language patterns offers a promising path towards cost-effective and non-invasive early detection of AD on a large scale.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Jonathan Heitz , Gerold Schneider , Nicolas Langer

Collecting and accessing a large amount of medical data is very time-consuming and laborious, not only because it is difficult to find specific patients but also because it is required to resolve the confidentiality of a patient's medical…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Junghyun Koo , Jie Hwan Lee , Jaewoo Pyo , Yujin Jo , Kyogu Lee

Gender bias has been widely observed in speech perception tasks, influenced by the fundamental voicing differences between genders. This study reveals a gender bias in the perception of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) speech. In a perception…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Liu He , Yuanchao Li , Rui Feng , XinRan Han , Yin-Long Liu , Yuwei Yang , Zude Zhu , Jiahong Yuan

Dementia is a complex syndrome impacting cognitive and emotional functions, with Alzheimer's disease being the most common form. This study focuses on enhancing dementia prediction using machine learning (ML) techniques on patient health…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Shafiul Ajam Opee , Nafiz Fahad , Anik Sen , Rasel Ahmed , Fariha Jahan , Md. Kishor Morol , Md Rashedul Islam

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,…

Alzheimer's Disease is a devastating neurological disorder that is increasingly affecting the elderly population. Early and accurate detection of Alzheimer's is crucial for providing effective treatment and support for patients and their…

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