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Alzheimer's Disease destroys brain cells causing people to lose their memory, mental functions and ability to continue daily activities. It is a severe neurological brain disorder which is not curable, but earlier detection of Alzheimer's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-21 Jyoti Islam , Yanqing Zhang

One of the most prevalent symptoms among the elderly population, dementia, can be detected by classifiers trained on linguistic features extracted from narrative transcripts. However, these linguistic features are impacted in a similar but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Zining Zhu , Jekaterina Novikova , Frank Rudzicz

Diagnosing autism spectrum disorder (ASD) by identifying abnormal speech patterns from examiner-patient dialogues presents significant challenges due to the subtle and diverse manifestations of speech-related symptoms in affected…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Chuanbo Hu , Jacob Thrasher , Wenqi Li , Mindi Ruan , Xiangxu Yu , Lynn K Paul , Shuo Wang , Xin Li

Agitation is one of the most common responsive behaviors in people living with dementia, particularly among those residing in community settings without continuous clinical supervision. Timely prediction of agitation can enable early…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Ali Abedi , Charlene H. Chu , Shehroz S. Khan

Current work on speech-based dementia assessment focuses on either feature extraction to predict assessment scales, or on the automation of existing test procedures. Most research uses public data unquestioningly and rarely performs a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-07 Franziska Braun , Christopher Witzl , Andreas Erzigkeit , Hartmut Lehfeld , Thomas Hillemacher , Tobias Bocklet , Korbinian Riedhammer

Depression commonly co-occurs with neurodegenerative disorders like Multiple Sclerosis (MS), yet the potential of speech-based Artificial Intelligence for detecting depression in such contexts remains unexplored. This study examines the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Monica Gonzalez-Machorro , Uwe Reichel , Pascal Hecker , Helly Hammer , Hesam Sagha , Florian Eyben , Robert Hoepner , Björn W. Schuller

Alzheimer's disease and Frontotemporal dementia are two major types of dementia. Their accurate diagnosis and differentiation is crucial for determining specific intervention and treatment. However, differential diagnosis of these two types…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-16 Huy-Dung Nguyen , Michaël Clément , Boris Mansencal , Pierrick Coupé

Goal: Numerous studies had successfully differentiated normal and abnormal voice samples. Nevertheless, further classification had rarely been attempted. This study proposes a novel approach, using continuous Mandarin speech instead of a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-23 Syu-Siang Wang , Chi-Te Wang , Chih-Chung Lai , Yu Tsao , Shih-Hau Fang

The rise of Alzheimers Disease worldwide has prompted a search for efficient tools which can be used to predict deterioration in cognitive decline leading to dementia. In this paper, we explore the potential of survival machine learning as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Henry Musto , Daniel Stamate , Ida Pu , Daniel Stahl

Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is the world's leading neurodegenerative disease, which often results in communication difficulties. Analysing speech can serve as a diagnostic tool for identifying the condition. The recent ADReSS challenge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Lucía Gómez-Zaragozá , Simone Wills , Cristian Tejedor-Garcia , Javier Marín-Morales , Mariano Alcañiz , Helmer Strik

In recent years there has been a burgeoning interest in the use of computational methods to distinguish between elicited speech samples produced by patients with dementia, and those from healthy controls. The difference between perplexity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Trevor Cohen , Serguei Pakhomov

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

Automated speech analysis is a thriving approach to detect early markers of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Yet, recording conditions in most AD datasets are heterogeneous, with patients and controls often evaluated in different acoustic…

Automated detection of voice disorders with computational methods is a recent research area in the medical domain since it requires a rigorous endoscopy for the accurate diagnosis. Efficient screening methods are required for the diagnosis…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-12-06 Vibhuti Gupta

Speech disorders often occur at the early stage of Parkinson's disease (PD). The speech impairments could be indicators of the disorder for early diagnosis, while motor symptoms are not obvious. In this study, we constructed a new speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-01 Hao Fang , Chen Gong , Chen Zhang , Yanan Sui , Luming Li

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

In the status quo, dementia is yet to be cured. Precise diagnosis prior to the onset of the symptoms can prevent the rapid progression of the emerging cognitive impairment. Recent progress has shown that Electroencephalography (EEG) is the…

Aphasia is a language disorder that affects the speaking ability of millions of patients. This paper presents a new benchmark for Aphasia speech recognition and detection tasks using state-of-the-art speech recognition techniques with the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-24 Jiyang Tang , William Chen , Xuankai Chang , Shinji Watanabe , Brian MacWhinney

This work addresses the need for enhanced accuracy and efficiency in speech command recognition systems, a critical component for improving user interaction in various smart applications. Leveraging the robust pretrained YAMNet model and…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Sidahmed Lachenani , Hamza Kheddar , Mohamed Ouldzmirli

Early detection of dementia through specific biomarkers in MR images plays a critical role in developing support strategies proactively. Fazekas scale facilitates an accurate quantitative assessment of the severity of white matter lesions…