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Automatic recognition of disordered and elderly speech remains a highly challenging task to date due to the difficulty in collecting such data in large quantities. This paper explores a series of approaches to integrate domain adapted SSL…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Shujie Hu , Xurong Xie , Zengrui Jin , Mengzhe Geng , Yi Wang , Mingyu Cui , Jiajun Deng , Xunying Liu , Helen Meng

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurological disorder, meaning that the symptoms develop gradually throughout the years. It is also the main cause of dementia, which affects memory, thinking skills, and mental abilities. Nowadays,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Loukas Ilias , Dimitris Askounis , John Psarras

Early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) is critical for timely intervention, yet most diagnoses are delayed until advanced stages. While comprehensive patient narratives are essential for accurate diagnosis,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Andrew G. Breithaupt , Nayoung Choi , James D. Finch , Jeanne M. Powell , Arin L. Nelson , Oz A. Alon , Howard J. Rosen , Jinho D. Choi

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

Automated speech analysis is a thriving approach to detect early markers of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Yet, recording conditions in most AD datasets are heterogeneous, with patients and controls often evaluated in different acoustic…

Speech-based automatic detection of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and depression has attracted increased attention. Confidence estimation is crucial for a trust-worthy automatic diagnostic system which informs the clinician about the confidence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Wen Wu , Chao Zhang , Philip C. Woodland

Parkinson's Disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by motor symptoms, including altered voice production in the early stages. Early diagnosis is crucial not only to improve PD patients' quality of life but also to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-15 Maksim Siniukov , Ellie Xing , Sanaz Attaripour Isfahani , Mohammad Soleymani

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

Alzheimers disease is a fatal progressive brain disorder that worsens with time. It is high time we have inexpensive and quick clinical diagnostic techniques for early detection and care. In previous studies, various Machine Learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Akshay Valsaraj , Ithihas Madala , Nikhil Garg , Veeky Baths

\textbf{Objectives}: We aimed to investigate how errors from automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems affect dementia classification accuracy, specifically in the ``Cookie Theft'' picture description task. We aimed to assess whether…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Changye Li , Weizhe Xu , Trevor Cohen , Serguei Pakhomov

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) plays an important role in speech-based automatic detection of Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, recognition errors could propagate downstream, potentially impacting the detection decisions. Recent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Jiawen Kang , Junan Li , Jinchao Li , Xixin Wu , Helen Meng

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

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

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

Early prediction of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is crucial for timely intervention and treatment. This study aims to use machine learning approaches to analyze longitudinal electronic health records (EHRs) of patients with AD and identify…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Rumeng Li , Xun Wang , Dan Berlowitz , Brian Silver , Wen Hu , Heather Keating , Raelene Goodwin , Weisong Liu , Honghuang Lin , Hong Yu

Millions of people live with cognitive impairment from Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD). Voice-enabled smart home systems offer promise for supporting daily living but rely on automatic speech recognition (ASR) to transcribe…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Michelle Cohn , Alyssa Lanzi , Yui Ishihara , Chen-Nee Chuah , Georgia Zellou , Alyssa Weakley

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

We propose a non-invasive and cost-effective method to automatically detect dementia by utilizing solely speech audio data. We extract paralinguistic features for a short speech segment and use Gated Convolutional Neural Networks (GCNN) to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-10 Mariana Rodrigues Makiuchi , Tifani Warnita , Nakamasa Inoue , Koichi Shinoda , Michitaka Yoshimura , Momoko Kitazawa , Kei Funaki , Yoko Eguchi , Taishiro Kishimoto

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

The recently proposed Conformer architecture has shown state-of-the-art performances in Automatic Speech Recognition by combining convolution with attention to model both local and global dependencies. In this paper, we study how to reduce…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-09 Maxime Burchi , Valentin Vielzeuf