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Based on official estimates, 50 million people worldwide are affected by dementia, and this number increases by 10 million new patients every year. Without a cure, clinical prognostication and early intervention represent the most effective…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Francisco de Arriba-Pérez , Silvia García-Méndez

Alzheimer's Disease (AD) ravages the cognitive ability of more than 5 million Americans and creates an enormous strain on the health care system. This paper proposes a machine learning predictive model for AD development without medical…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-06-17 Courtney Cochrane , David Castineira , Nisreen Shiban , Pavlos Protopapas

Alzheimer's disease is a degenerative brain disease. Being the primary cause of Dementia in adults and progressively destroys brain memory. Though Alzheimer's disease does not have a cure currently, diagnosing it at an earlier stage will…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Shrish Pellakur , Nelly Elsayed , Zag ElSayed , Murat Ozer

Alzheimer's patients gradually lose their ability to think, behave, and interact with others. Medical history, laboratory tests, daily activities, and personality changes can all be used to diagnose the disorder. A series of time-consuming…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Md. Sharifur Rahman , Professor Girijesh Prasad

Independent life of the individuals suffering from Alzheimer's disease (AD) is compromised due to their memory loss. As a result, they depend on others to help them lead their daily life. In this situation, either the family members or the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Fatemeh Ghorbani

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disease in older people. Despite considerable efforts to find a cure for AD, there is a 99.6% failure rate of clinical trials for AD drugs, likely because AD patients cannot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Jack Albright

Effective dementia caregiving requires training and adaptive communication, but assistive AI and robotics are constrained by a lack of context-rich, privacy-sensitive data on how people living with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Kruthika Gangaraju , Shu-Fen Wung , Kevin Berner , Jing Wang , Fengpei Yuan

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

Objective Alzheimer disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia, a syndrome characterized by cognitive impairment severe enough to interfere with activities of daily life. We aimed to conduct a systematic literature review (SLR) of…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-08-31 Sayantan Kumar , Inez Oh , Suzanne Schindler , Albert M Lai , Philip R O Payne , Aditi Gupta

Dementia is a neurodegenerative disease that causes gradual cognitive impairment, which is very common in the world and undergoes a lot of research every year to prevent and cure it. It severely impacts the patient's ability to remember…

Dementia is a collection of symptoms associated with impaired cognition and impedes everyday normal functioning. Dementia, with Alzheimer's disease constituting its most common type, is highly complex in terms of etiology and…

Alzheimer's Disease is a neurodegenerative condition characterized by dementia and impairment in neurological function. The study primarily focuses on the individuals above age 40, affecting their memory, behavior, and cognitive processes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Mohammad Rafsan , Tamer Oraby , Upal Roy , Sanjeev Kumar , Hansapani Rodrigo

Alzheimer's disease affects an ever-increasing number of people in the aging population. Current treatment options are limited to a narrow time frame at the mild to moderate stage of dementia, and patients are confronted with the inevitable…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-06-07 Joachim Enengl , Peter Dungel

Dementia is a mental illness that people live with all across the world. No one is immune. Nothing can predict its onset. The true story of dementia remains unknown globally, partly due to the denial of dementia symptoms and partly due to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Sayan Kumar Ray , Geri Harris , Akbar Hossain , NZ Jhanjhi

This paper explores deterioration in Alzheimers Disease using Machine Learning. Subjects were split into two datasets based on baseline diagnosis (Cognitively Normal, Mild Cognitive Impairment), with outcome of deterioration at final visit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Henry Musto , Daniel Stamate , Ida Pu , Daniel Stahl

Interactive cognitive assessment tools may be valuable for doctors and therapists to reduce costs and improve quality in healthcare systems. Use cases and scenarios include the assessment of dementia. In this paper, we present our approach…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Daniel Sonntag

The loss of neuronal cells in the central nervous system may happen in numerous neurodegenerative illnesses. Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is an intricate, irreversible, dynamic neurodegenerative sickness. It is the main source of age-related…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-08-29 Ankur Patel , Grishma joshi , Rupali Ugile

In this paper we describe the requirements and early system design for a smart conversational agent that can assist older adults in the reminiscence process. The practice of reminiscence has well documented benefits for the mental, social…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-04-19 Svetlana Nikitina , Sara Callaioli , Marcos Baez

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an irreversible brain disease that can dramatically reduce quality of life, most commonly manifesting in older adults and eventually leading to the need for full-time care. Early detection is fundamental to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-14 Flavio Di Palo , Natalie Parde

As the aging of society continues to accelerate, Alzheimer's Disease (AD) has received more and more attention from not only medical but also other fields, such as computer science, over the past decade. Since speech is considered one of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Yuanchao Li , Catherine Lai , Divesh Lala , Koji Inoue , Tatsuya Kawahara