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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

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

Memory disorders are a central factor in the decline of functioning and daily activities in elderly individuals. The confirmation of the illness, initiation of medication to slow its progression, and the commencement of occupational therapy…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Marko Niemelä , Mikaela von Bonsdorff , Sami Äyrämö , Tommi Kärkkäinen

In the past decade, there has been a surge in research examining the use of voice and speech analysis as a means of detecting neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's. Many studies have shown that certain acoustic features can be used…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-20 Vrindha M. K. , Geethu V. , Anurenjan P. R. , Deepak S. , Sreeni K. G.

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder and the leading cause of dementia, affecting memory, reasoning, communication, and daily functioning. Early diagnosis is particularly important, as timely intervention may…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Loukas Ilias , Dimitris Askounis

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

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

Dementia is associated with various cognitive impairments and typically manifests only after significant progression, making intervention at this stage often ineffective. To address this issue, the Prediction and Recognition of Cognitive…

Recent progress has been made in detecting early stage dementia entirely through recordings of patient speech. Multimodal speech analysis methods were applied to the PROCESS challenge, which requires participants to use audio recordings of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-14 Lei Chi , Arav Sharma , Ari Gebhardt , Joseph T. Colonel

Dementia is a group of irreversible, chronic, and progressive neurodegenerative disorders resulting in impaired memory, communication, and thought processes. In recent years, clinical research advances in brain aging have focused on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Swati Padhee , Anurag Illendula , Megan Sadler , Valerie L. Shalin , Tanvi Banerjee , Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan , William L. Romine

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…

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

Early detection of Alzheimer's Dementia (AD) and Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) is critical for timely intervention, yet current diagnostic approaches remain resource-intensive and invasive. Speech, encompassing both acoustic and…

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

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

This paper presents our submission to the PROCESS Challenge 2025, focusing on spontaneous speech analysis for early dementia detection. For the three-class classification task (Healthy Control, Mild Cognitive Impairment, and Dementia), we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-28 Yin-Long Liu , Yuanchao Li , Rui Feng , Liu He , Jia-Xin Chen , Yi-Ming Wang , Yu-Ang Chen , Yan-Han Peng , Jia-Hong Yuan , Zhen-Hua Ling

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

Cognitive impairment detection through spontaneous speech is a promising avenue for early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI), where timely intervention can significantly improve patient outcomes. The…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Yifan Gao , Long Guo , Hong Liu

We propose a non-invasive and cost-effective method to automatically detect dementia by utilizing solely speech audio data. We extract paralinguistic features for a short speech segment and use Gated Convolutional Neural Networks (GCNN) to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-10 Mariana Rodrigues Makiuchi , Tifani Warnita , Nakamasa Inoue , Koichi Shinoda , Michitaka Yoshimura , Momoko Kitazawa , Kei Funaki , Yoko Eguchi , Taishiro Kishimoto
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