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Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-15 Jinchao Li , Kaitao Song , Junan Li , Bo Zheng , Dongsheng Li , Xixin Wu , Xunying Liu , Helen Meng

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

Alzheimer's dementia (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder with cognitive decline that commonly impacts language ability. This work extends the paired perplexity approach to detecting AD by using a recent large language model (LLM), the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Yao Xiao , Heidi Christensen , Stefan Goetze

This paper is a submission to the Alzheimer's Dementia Recognition through Spontaneous Speech (ADReSS) challenge, which aims to develop methods that can assist in the automated prediction of severity of Alzheimer's Disease from speech data.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Morteza Rohanian , Julian Hough , Matthew Purver

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

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

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

Alzheimer's disease is estimated to affect around 50 million people worldwide and is rising rapidly, with a global economic burden of nearly a trillion dollars. This calls for scalable, cost-effective, and robust methods for detection of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-03 Utkarsh Sarawgi , Wazeer Zulfikar , Nouran Soliman , Pattie Maes

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

Alzheimer's disease (AD) has become one of the most significant health challenges in an aging society. The use of spoken language-based AD detection methods has gained prevalence due to their scalability due to their scalability. Based on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Junan Li , Yunxiang Li , Yuren Wang , Xixin Wu , Helen Meng

Dementia is a syndrome, generally of a chronic nature characterized by a deterioration in cognitive function, especially in the geriatric population and is severe enough to impact their daily activities. Early diagnosis of dementia is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-21 Rupayan Chakraborty , Meghna Pandharipande , Chitralekha Bhat , Sunil Kumar Kopparapu

Speech datasets for identifying Alzheimer's disease (AD) are generally restricted to participants performing a single task, e.g. describing an image shown to them. As a result, models trained on linguistic features derived from such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Aparna Balagopalan , Jekaterina Novikova , Frank Rudzicz , Marzyeh Ghassemi

Data sets for identifying Alzheimer's disease (AD) are often relatively sparse, which limits their ability to train generalizable models. Here, we augment such a data set, DementiaBank, with each of two normative data sets, the Wisconsin…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-04 Zeinab Noorian , Chloé Pou-Prom , Frank Rudzicz

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease most often associated with memory deficits and cognitive decline. With the aging population, there has been much interest in automated methods for cognitive impairment…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-07 Bastiaan Tamm , Rik Vandenberghe , Hugo Van hamme

Cognitive decline is a sign of Alzheimer's disease (AD), and there is evidence that tracking a person's eye movement, using eye tracking devices, can be used for the automatic identification of early signs of cognitive decline. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Bahman Mirheidari , Yilin Pan , Traci Walker , Markus Reuber , Annalena Venneri , Daniel Blackburn , Heidi Christensen

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that leads to irreversible cognitive decline in memory and communication. Early detection of AD through speech analysis is crucial for delaying disease progression.…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Yifan Gao , Long Guo , Hong Liu

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

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

Alzheimer's disease (AD) constitutes a complex neurocognitive disease and is the main cause of dementia. Although many studies have been proposed targeting at diagnosing dementia through spontaneous speech, there are still limitations.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Loukas Ilias , Dimitris Askounis

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…

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