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Speech is usually used for constructing an automatic Alzheimer's dementia (AD) detection system, as the acoustic and linguistic abilities show a decline in people living with AD at the early stages. However, speech includes not only…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-11 Yilin Pan , Yanpei Shi , Yijia Zhang , Mingyu Lu

The ADReSS Challenge at INTERSPEECH 2020 defines a shared task through which different approaches to the automated recognition of Alzheimer's dementia based on spontaneous speech can be compared. ADReSS provides researchers with a benchmark…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-07 Saturnino Luz , Fasih Haider , Sofia de la Fuente , Davida Fromm , Brian MacWhinney

Alongside neuroimaging such as MRI scans and PET, Alzheimer's disease (AD) datasets contain valuable tabular data including AD biomarkers and clinical assessments. Existing computer vision approaches struggle to utilize this additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Weichen Huang

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

Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is a complex neurodegenerative disorder marked by memory loss, executive dysfunction, and personality changes. Early diagnosis is challenging due to subtle symptoms and varied presentations, often leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Yifei Chen , Shenghao Zhu , Zhaojie Fang , Chang Liu , Binfeng Zou , Yuhe Wang , Shuo Chang , Fan Jia , Feiwei Qin , Jin Fan , Yong Peng , Changmiao Wang

In this paper, we combined linguistic complexity and (dis)fluency features with pretrained language models for the task of Alzheimer's disease detection of the 2021 ADReSSo (Alzheimer's Dementia Recognition through Spontaneous Speech)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Yu Qiao , Xuefeng Yin , Daniel Wiechmann , Elma Kerz

Dementia is a neurodegenerative disease that causes gradual cognitive impairment, which is very common in the world and undergoes a lot of research every year to prevent and cure it. It severely impacts the patient's ability to remember…

Alzheimer's Disease (AD) causes a continuous decline in memory, thinking, and judgment. Traditional diagnoses are usually based on clinical experience, which is limited by some realistic factors. In this paper, we focus on exploiting deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-14 Fangyu Zuo , Peiguang Jing , Jinglin Sun , Jizhong , Duan , Yong Ji , Yu Liu

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common type of dementia accompanied with brain atrophy. Structural measurements of brain atrophy in specific brain structures such as hippocampus using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) have been reported…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-05-10 Kenya Murase , Naohiko Gondo , Tsutomu Soma

Alzheimer's disease is a progressive neurological disorder characterized by cognitive impairment and memory loss. With the increasing aging population, the incidence of AD is continuously rising, making early diagnosis and intervention an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-23 Guian Fang , Mengsha Liu , Yi Zhong , Zhuolin Zhang , Jiehui Huang , Zhenchao Tang , Calvin Yu-Chian Chen

Deep learning (DL) techniques involving fine-tuning large numbers of model parameters have delivered impressive performance on the task of discriminating between language produced by cognitively healthy individuals, and those with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Changye Li , David Knopman , Weizhe Xu , Trevor Cohen , Serguei Pakhomov

Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that leads to dementia, and early intervention can greatly benefit from analyzing linguistic abnormalities. In this work, we explore the potential of Large Language Models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Chuyuan Li , Raymond Li , Thalia S. Field , Giuseppe Carenini

Deep transformer models have been used to detect linguistic anomalies in patient transcripts for early Alzheimer's disease (AD) screening. While pre-trained neural language models (LMs) fine-tuned on AD transcripts perform well, little…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Zhecheng Sheng , Xiruo Ding , Brian Hur , Changye Li , Trevor Cohen , Serguei Pakhomov

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 a neurodegenerative disease affecting millions of individuals across the globe. As the prevalence of this disease continues to rise, early diagnosis is crucial to improve clinical outcomes. Neural networks,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-06 Akshay Sunkara , Rajiv Morthala , Anav Jain , Srinjoy Ghose , Santosh Morthala

Alzheimer's disease (AD), defined as an abnormal buildup of amyloid plaques and tau tangles in the brain can be diagnosed with high accuracy based on protein biomarkers via PET or CSF analysis. However, due to the invasive nature of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Megan A. Witherow , Michael L. Evans , Ahmed Temtam , Hamid R. Okhravi , Khan M. Iftekharuddin

We present two multimodal fusion-based deep learning models that consume ASR transcribed speech and acoustic data simultaneously to classify whether a speaker in a structured diagnostic task has Alzheimer's Disease and to what degree,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Morteza Rohanian , Julian Hough , Matthew Purver

Alzheimer's Disease Analysis Model (ADAM) is a multi-agent reasoning large language model (LLM) framework designed to integrate and analyze multimodal data, including microbiome profiles, clinical datasets, and external knowledge bases, to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Ziyuan Huang , Vishaldeep Kaur Sekhon , Roozbeh Sadeghian , Maria L. Vaida , Cynthia Jo , Doyle Ward , Vanni Bucci , John P. Haran

Early diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is crucial for delaying its progression. While AI-based speech detection is non-invasive and cost-effective, it faces a critical data efficiency dilemma due to medical data scarcity and privacy…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Xiao Wei , Bin Wen , Yuqin Lin , Kai Li , Mingyang gu , Xiaobao Wang , Longbiao Wang , Jianwu Dang

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