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

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Yi Wang , Jiajun Deng , Tianzi Wang , Bo Zheng , Shoukang Hu , Xunying Liu , Helen Meng

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Yi Wang , Tianzi Wang , Zi Ye , Lingwei Meng , Shoukang Hu , Xixin Wu , Xunying Liu , Helen Meng

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

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) is a common form of dementia that severely impacts patient health. As AD impairs the patient's language understanding and expression ability, the speech of AD patients can serve as an indicator of this disease. This…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-07 Hongmin Cai , Xiaoke Huang , Zhengliang Liu , Wenxiong Liao , Haixing Dai , Zihao Wu , Dajiang Zhu , Hui Ren , Quanzheng Li , Tianming Liu , Xiang Li

Alzheimer's Dementia (AD) is an incurable, debilitating, and progressive neurodegenerative condition that affects cognitive function. Early diagnosis is important as therapeutics can delay progression and give those diagnosed vital time.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Thomas Searle , Zina Ibrahim , Richard Dobson

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease and recently attracts extensive attention worldwide. Speech technology is considered a promising solution for the early diagnosis of AD and has been enthusiastically…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-05 Ying Qin , Wei Liu , Zhiyuan Peng , Si-Ioi Ng , Jingyu Li , Haibo Hu , Tan Lee

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

Automatic recognition of disordered and elderly speech remains highly challenging tasks to date due to data scarcity. Parameter fine-tuning is often used to exploit the large quantities of non-aged and healthy speech pre-trained models,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-28 Tianzi Wang , Shoukang Hu , Jiajun Deng , Zengrui Jin , Mengzhe Geng , Yi Wang , Helen Meng , Xunying Liu

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

Background: Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) are progressive neurodegenerative conditions where early detection is vital for timely intervention and care. Spontaneous speech contains rich acoustic and linguistic markers that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Jingyu Li , Lingchao Mao , Hairong Wang , Zhendong Wang , Xi Mao , Xuelei Sherry Ni

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) stands as the predominant cause of dementia, characterized by a gradual decline in speech and language capabilities. Recent deep-learning advancements have facilitated automated AD detection through spontaneous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Chin-Po Chen , Jeng-Lin Li

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease that affects nearly 50 million individuals across the globe and is one of the leading causes of deaths globally. It is projected that by 2050, the number of people affected by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Yash Kumar , Piyush Maheshwari , Shreyansh Joshi , Veeky Baths

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.

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

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

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

Early detection of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is greatly beneficial to AD patients, leading to early treatments that lessen symptoms and alleviating financial burden of health care. As one of the leading signs of AD, language capability…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Yangyang Li
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