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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by cognitive decline and memory loss. Early detection of AD is crucial for effective intervention and treatment. In this paper, we propose a novel approach…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-29 Yu Pu , Wei-Qiang Zhang

Over half of US adults with Alzheimer disease and related dementias remain undiagnosed, and speech-based screening offers a scalable detection approach. We compared large language model adaptation strategies for dementia detection using the…

This Signal Processing Grand Challenge (SPGC) targets a difficult automatic prediction problem of societal and medical relevance, namely, the detection of Alzheimer's Dementia (AD). Participants were invited to employ signal processing and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-16 Saturnino Luz , Fasih Haider , Davida Fromm , Ioulietta Lazarou , Ioannis Kompatsiaris , Brian MacWhinney

In the past decade, there has been a surge in research examining the use of voice and speech analysis as a means of detecting neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's. Many studies have shown that certain acoustic features can be used…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-20 Vrindha M. K. , Geethu V. , Anurenjan P. R. , Deepak S. , Sreeni K. G.

As an effective strategy, data augmentation (DA) alleviates data scarcity scenarios where deep learning techniques may fail. It is widely applied in computer vision then introduced to natural language processing and achieves improvements in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Bohan Li , Yutai Hou , Wanxiang Che

Reliable detection of the prodromal stages of Alzheimer's disease (AD) remains difficult even today because, unlike other neurocognitive impairments, there is no definitive diagnosis of AD in vivo. In this context, existing research has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Amish Mittal , Sourav Sahoo , Arnhav Datar , Juned Kadiwala , Hrithwik Shalu , Jimson Mathew

Alzheimer's disease (AD) constitutes a neurodegenerative disease with serious consequences to peoples' everyday lives, if it is not diagnosed early since there is no available cure. Alzheimer's is the most common cause of dementia, which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Loukas Ilias , Dimitris Askounis , John Psarras

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

The rapid global aging trend has led to an increase in dementia cases, including Alzheimer's disease, underscoring the urgent need for early and accurate diagnostic methods. Traditional diagnostic techniques, such as cognitive tests,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Juan A. Berrios Moya

Research related to automatically detecting Alzheimer's disease (AD) is important, given the high prevalence of AD and the high cost of traditional methods. Since AD significantly affects the content and acoustics of spontaneous speech,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Aparna Balagopalan , Benjamin Eyre , Frank Rudzicz , Jekaterina Novikova

Automatic detection of Alzheimer's dementia by speech processing is enhanced when features of both the acoustic waveform and the content are extracted. Audio and text transcription have been widely used in health-related tasks, as spectral…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-12 Edward L. Campbell , Laura Docío-Fernández , Javier Jiménez Raboso , Carmen García-Mateo

Early diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is crucial for delaying its progression. While AI-based speech detection is non-invasive and cost-effective, it faces a critical data efficiency dilemma due to medical data scarcity and privacy…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Xiao Wei , Bin Wen , Yuqin Lin , Kai Li , Mingyang gu , Xiaobao Wang , Longbiao Wang , Jianwu Dang

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

Reliable early detection of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is challenging, particularly due to limited availability of labeled data. While large language models (LLMs) have shown strong transfer capabilities across domains, adapting them to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Lei Jiang , Yue Zhou , Natalie Parde

Large language models (LLMs) have emerged as powerful tools for medical information retrieval, yet their accuracy and depth remain limited in specialized domains such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), a growing global health challenge. To…

Automated diagnosis of Alzheimer Disease(AD) from brain imaging, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), has become increasingly important and has attracted the community to contribute many deep learning methods. However, many of these…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-01 Yifeng Wang , Ke Chen , Haohan Wang

Introduction: Alzheimer's disease is a type of dementia in which early diagnosis plays a major rule in the quality of treatment. Among new works in the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease, there are many of them analyzing the voice stream…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-02 S. Soroush Haj Zargarbashi , Bagher Babaali

Deep learning (DL) techniques involving fine-tuning large numbers of model parameters have delivered impressive performance on the task of discriminating between language produced by cognitively healthy individuals, and those with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Changye Li , David Knopman , Weizhe Xu , Trevor Cohen , Serguei Pakhomov

Alzheimer's dementia (AD) affects memory, thinking, and language, deteriorating person's life. An early diagnosis is very important as it enables the person to receive medical help and ensure quality of life. Therefore, leveraging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Michail Chatzianastasis , Loukas Ilias , Dimitris Askounis , Michalis Vazirgiannis

The detection of Alzheimer's disease (AD) from spontaneous speech has attracted increasing attention while the sparsity of training data remains an important issue. This paper handles the issue by knowledge transfer, specifically from both…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Ziyun Cui , Wen Wu , Wei-Qiang Zhang , Ji Wu , Chao Zhang