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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an irreversible neurode generative disease of the brain.The disease may causes memory loss, difficulty communicating and disorientation. For the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease, a series of scales are often…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-13 Yelu Gao , Huang Huang , Lian Zhang

Detection of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) from neuroimaging data such as MRI through machine learning have been a subject of intense research in recent years. Recent success of deep learning in computer vision have progressed such research…

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This paper describes a multi-modal approach for the automatic detection of Alzheimer's disease proposed in the context of the INESC-ID Human Language Technology Laboratory participation in the ADReSS 2020 challenge. Our classification…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-01 Anna Pompili , Thomas Rolland , Alberto Abad

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

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

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

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

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

Alzheimers disease (AD) is a severe neurological brain disorder. It is not curable, but earlier detection can help improve symptoms in a great deal. The machine learning based approaches are popular and well motivated models for medical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-17 Lilia Lazli

Machine learning has shown promise for automatic detection of Alzheimer's disease (AD) through speech; however, efforts are hampered by a scarcity of data, especially in languages other than English. We propose a method to learn a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Bai Li , Yi-Te Hsu , Frank Rudzicz

Transfer learning has been widely utilized to mitigate the data scarcity problem in the field of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Conventional transfer learning relies on re-using models trained on AD-irrelevant tasks such as natural image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-18 Kai Tzu-iunn Ong , Hana Kim , Minjin Kim , Jinseong Jang , Beomseok Sohn , Yoon Seong Choi , Dosik Hwang , Seong Jae Hwang , Jinyoung Yeo

\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

Early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is crucial in facilitating preventive care to delay further progression. This paper presents the development of a state-of-the-art Conformer based speech recognition system built on the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-28 Tianzi Wang , Jiajun Deng , Mengzhe Geng , Zi Ye , Shoukang Hu , Yi Wang , Mingyu Cui , Zengrui Jin , Xunying Liu , Helen Meng

We propose an automatic detection method of Alzheimer's diseases using a gated convolutional neural network (GCNN) from speech data. This GCNN can be trained with a relatively small amount of data and can capture the temporal information in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-04-02 Tifani Warnita , Nakamasa Inoue , Koichi Shinoda

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

Alzheimers Disease AD is an acute neuro disease that degenerates the brain cells and thus leads to memory loss progressively. It is a fatal brain disease that mostly affects the elderly. It steers the decline of cognitive and biological…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Nair Bini Balakrishnan , P. S. Sreeja , Jisha Jose Panackal

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive and incurable neurodegenerative disease which destroys brain cells and causes loss to patient's memory. An early detection can prevent the patient from further damage of the brain cells and hence…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-11 Ali Nawaz , Syed Muhammad Anwar , Rehan Liaqat , Javid Iqbal , Ulas Bagci , Muhammad Majid

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an irreversible, progressive neuro degenerative disorder that slowly destroys memory and thinking skills and eventually, the ability to carry out the simplest tasks. In this paper, a deep neural network based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-17 Manu Subramoniam , Aparna T. R. , Anurenjan P. R. , Sreeni K. G

There is a need for automatic diagnosis of certain diseases from medical images that could help medical practitioners for further assessment towards treating the illness. Alzheimers disease is a good example of a disease that is often…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-30 GuruRaj Awate

Early detection is crucial to prevent the progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Thus, specialists can begin preventive treatment as soon as possible. They demand fast and precise assessment in the diagnosis of AD in the earliest and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Alejandro Puente-Castro , Enrique Fernandez-Blanco , Alejandro Pazos , Cristian R. Munteanu