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This paper presents a reinforcement learning approach to extract noise in long clinical documents for the task of readmission prediction after kidney transplant. We face the challenges of developing robust models on a small dataset where…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Liyan Xu , Julien Hogan , Rachel E. Patzer , Jinho D. Choi

We introduce HK-LegiCoST, a new three-way parallel corpus of Cantonese-English translations, containing 600+ hours of Cantonese audio, its standard traditional Chinese transcript, and English translation, segmented and aligned at the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Cihan Xiao , Henry Li Xinyuan , Jinyi Yang , Dongji Gao , Matthew Wiesner , Kevin Duh , Sanjeev Khudanpur

This paper deals with a complex acoustic analysis of phonation in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) with a special focus on estimation of disease progress that is described by 7 different clinical scales ,e. g. Unified Parkinson's…

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a progressive degenerative disorder of the central nervous system characterized by motor and non-motor symptoms. As the disease progresses, patients alternate periods in which motor symptoms are mitigated due to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-26 Anna Pompili , Rubén Solera-Ureña , Alberto Abad , Rita Cardoso , Isabel Guimarães , Margherita Fabbri , Isabel P. Martins , Joaquim Ferreira

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that impacts motor functions and speech characteristics This study focuses on differentiating individuals with Parkinson's disease from healthy controls through the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Burak Çelik , Ayhan Akbal

We present SDS-200, a corpus of Swiss German dialectal speech with Standard German text translations, annotated with dialect, age, and gender information of the speakers. The dataset allows for training speech translation, dialect…

It is widely accepted that information derived from analyzing speech (the acoustic signal) and language production (words and sentences) serves as a useful window into the health of an individual's cognitive ability. In fact, most…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Rohit Voleti , Julie M. Liss , Visar Berisha

In text-to-speech, controlling voice characteristics is important in achieving various-purpose speech synthesis. Considering the success of text-conditioned generation, such as text-to-image, free-form text instruction should be useful for…

Listening to lung sounds through auscultation is vital in examining the respiratory system for abnormalities. Automated analysis of lung auscultation sounds can be beneficial to the health systems in low-resource settings where there is a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-10 Samiul Based Shuvo , Shams Nafisa Ali , Soham Irtiza Swapnil , Taufiq Hasan , Mohammed Imamul Hassan Bhuiyan

Background Chronic kidney disease (CKD) induces muscle wasting and a reduction in the maximum voluntary force (MVF). Little is known about the neuromuscular fatigability in CKD patients, defined as the reduction of muscle force capacities…

Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are the standard for evaluating the effectiveness of clinical interventions. To address the limitations of RCTs on real-world populations, we developed a methodology that uses a large observational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Panayiotis Petousis , David Gordon , Susanne B. Nicholas , Alex A. T. Bui

A Convolutional Neural Network was used to predict kidney function in patients with chronic kidney disease from high-resolution digital pathology scans of their kidney biopsies. Kidney biopsies were taken from participants of the NEPTUNE…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-02-08 David Ledbetter , Long Ho , Kevin V Lemley

Areas where Artificial Intelligence (AI) & related fields are finding their applications are increasing day by day, moving from core areas of computer science they are finding their applications in various other domains.In recent times…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-07-19 Sahil Sharma , Vinod Sharma , Atul Sharma

People spend a substantial portion of their lives engaged in conversation, and yet our scientific understanding of conversation is still in its infancy. In this report we advance an interdisciplinary science of conversation, with findings…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Andrew Reece , Gus Cooney , Peter Bull , Christine Chung , Bryn Dawson , Casey Fitzpatrick , Tamara Glazer , Dean Knox , Alex Liebscher , Sebastian Marin

In this work we explored building automatic speech recognition models for transcribing doctor patient conversation. We collected a large scale dataset of clinical conversations ($14,000$ hr), designed the task to represent the real word…

Disorders of voice production have severe effects on the quality of life of the affected individuals. A simulation approach is used to investigate the cause-effect chain in voice production showing typical characteristics of voice such as…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Florian Kraxberger , Andreas Wurzinger , Stefan Schoder

Pathological speech analysis has been of interest in the detection of certain diseases like depression and Alzheimer's disease and attracts much interest from researchers. However, previous pathological speech analysis models are commonly…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-08 Fei Yang , Xuenan Xu , Mengyue Wu , Kai Yu

Rubrics are a commonly used tool for labeling voice corpora in speech quality assessment, although their application in the context of pathological speech remains relatively limited. In this study, we introduce a comprehensive rubric based…

Parkinson's Disease (PD) affects over 10 million people globally, with speech impairments often preceding motor symptoms by years, making speech a valuable modality for early, non-invasive detection. While recent deep-learning models…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Terry Yi Zhong , Cristian Tejedor-Garcia , Martha Larson , Bastiaan R. Bloem

We propose a new paradigm for maintaining speaker identity in dysarthric voice conversion (DVC). The poor quality of dysarthric speech can be greatly improved by statistical VC, but as the normal speech utterances of a dysarthria patient…