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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

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

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

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

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

Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is nowadays the most common form of dementia, and its automatic detection can help to identify symptoms at early stages, so that preventive actions can be carried out. Moreover, non-intrusive techniques based on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-21 Mireia Farrús , Joan Codina-Filbà

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) is an incurable, debilitating, and progressive neurodegenerative condition that affects cognitive function. Early diagnosis is important as therapeutics can delay progression and give those diagnosed vital time.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Thomas Searle , Zina Ibrahim , Richard Dobson

As the aging of society continues to accelerate, Alzheimer's Disease (AD) has received more and more attention from not only medical but also other fields, such as computer science, over the past decade. Since speech is considered one of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Yuanchao Li , Catherine Lai , Divesh Lala , Koji Inoue , Tatsuya Kawahara

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by cognitive decline and memory loss. Early detection of AD is crucial for effective intervention and treatment. In this paper, we propose a novel approach…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-29 Yu Pu , Wei-Qiang Zhang

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

We present an approach to automatic detection of Alzheimer's type dementia based on characteristics of spontaneous spoken language dialogue consisting of interviews recorded in natural settings. The proposed method employs additive logistic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-27 Saturnino Luz , Sofia de la Fuente , Pierre Albert

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease that affects nearly 50 million individuals across the globe and is one of the leading causes of deaths globally. It is projected that by 2050, the number of people affected by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Yash Kumar , Piyush Maheshwari , Shreyansh Joshi , Veeky Baths

Early detection of Alzheimer's disease from spontaneous speech has emerged as a promising non-invasive screening approach. However, the influence of automatic speech recognition (ASR) quality on downstream clinical language modeling remains…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-01 Himadri S Samanta

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a common form of dementia that severely impacts patient health. As AD impairs the patient's language understanding and expression ability, the speech of AD patients can serve as an indicator of this disease. This…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-07 Hongmin Cai , Xiaoke Huang , Zhengliang Liu , Wenxiong Liao , Haixing Dai , Zihao Wu , Dajiang Zhu , Hui Ren , Quanzheng Li , Tianming Liu , Xiang Li

Language is a valuable source of clinical information in Alzheimer's Disease, as it declines concurrently with neurodegeneration. Consequently, speech and language data have been extensively studied in connection with its diagnosis. This…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Sofia de la Fuente Garcia , Craig Ritchie , Saturnino Luz

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

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 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

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
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