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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

With the global population aging rapidly, Alzheimer's disease (AD) is particularly prominent in older adults, which has an insidious onset and leads to a gradual, irreversible deterioration in cognitive domains (memory, communication,…

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

The average life expectancy is increasing globally due to advancements in medical technology, preventive health care, and a growing emphasis on gerontological health. Therefore, developing technologies that detect and track aging-associated…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Saurav K. Aryal , Howard Prioleau , Legand Burge

Alzheimer's disease and related dementias(ADRD) affect nearly five million older adults in the United States, yet more than half remain undiagnosed. Speech-based natural language processing(NLP) offers a scalable approach for detecting…

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

Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is an irreversible neurodegenerative disease affecting 50 million people worldwide. Low-cost, accurate identification of key markers of AD is crucial for timely diagnosis and intervention. Language impairment is one…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Tingyu Mo , Jacqueline C. K. Lam , Victor O. K. Li , Lawrence Y. L. Cheung

Prompting large language models is a training-free method for detecting Alzheimer's disease from speech transcripts. Using the ADReSS dataset, we revisit zero-shot prompting and study few-shot prompting with a class-balanced protocol using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Jana Sweidan , Mounim A. El-Yacoubi , Nasredine Semmar

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

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

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

Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is a significant and growing public health concern. Investigating alterations in speech and language patterns offers a promising path towards cost-effective and non-invasive early detection of AD on a large scale.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Jonathan Heitz , Gerold Schneider , Nicolas Langer

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

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

Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Voice Recognition agents are rapidly evolving healthcare by enabling efficient, accessible, and professional patient support while automating grunt work. This report serves as my self project wherein…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-21 Kabir Kumar

Objective: this study has a twofold goal. First, it aims to improve the understanding of the impact of Dementia of type Alzheimer's Disease (AD) on different aspects of the lexicon. Second, it aims to demonstrate that such aspects of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-18 M. Zakaria Kurdi

\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

Medical vision-language models (Med-VLMs) have shown impressive results in tasks such as report generation and visual question answering, but they still face several limitations. Most notably, they underutilize patient metadata and lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Fangqi Cheng , Surajit Ray , Xiaochen Yang

Early detection of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is greatly beneficial to AD patients, leading to early treatments that lessen symptoms and alleviating financial burden of health care. As one of the leading signs of AD, language capability…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Yangyang Li

Early diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) faces multiple data-related challenges, including high variability in patient data, limited access to specialized diagnostic tests, and overreliance on single-type indicators. These challenges are…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-05 Yizong Xing , Dhita Putri Pratama , Yuke Wang , Yufan Zhang , Brian E. Chapman

Large language models (LLMs) have emerged as powerful tools for medical information retrieval, yet their accuracy and depth remain limited in specialized domains such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), a growing global health challenge. To…