The Application of Artificial Intelligence in Alzheimer's Research

Q Zhao, H Xu, J Li, FA Rajput… - Tsinghua Science and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an irreversible and neurodegenerative disease that slowly
impairs memory and neurocognitive function, but the etiology of AD is still unclear. With the …

Conformer based elderly speech recognition system for Alzheimer's disease detection

T Wang, J Deng, M Geng, Z Ye, S Hu, Y Wang… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is crucial in facilitating preventive care to delay
further progression. This paper presents the development of a state-of-the-art Conformer …

Development of the cuhk elderly speech recognition system for neurocognitive disorder detection using the dementiabank corpus

Z Ye, S Hu, J Li, X **e, M Geng, J Yu… - ICASSP 2021-2021 …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Early diagnosis of Neurocognitive Disorder (NCD) is crucial in facilitating preventive care
and timely treatment to delay further progression. This paper presents the development of a …

Self-supervised asr models and features for dysarthric and elderly speech recognition

S Hu, X **e, M Geng, Z **, J Deng, G Li… - … on Audio, Speech …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Self-supervised learning (SSL) based speech foundation models have been applied to a
wide range of ASR tasks. However, their application to dysarthric and elderly speech via …

[PDF][PDF] Integrated and enhanced pipeline system to support spoken language analytics for screening neurocognitive disorders

H Meng, B Mak, MW Mak, H Fung, X Gong… - Proc …, 2023 - isca-archive.org
This paper presents an enhanced pipeline system for automated screening of
neurocognitive disorders, eg Alzheimer's Disease (AD), using spoken language …

TalkTive: a conversational agent using backchannels to engage older adults in neurocognitive disorders screening

Z Ding, J Kang, TOT Ho, KH Wong, HH Fung… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Conversational agents (CAs) have the great potential in mitigating the clinicians' burden in
screening for neurocognitive disorders among older adults. It is important, therefore, to …

A Systematic Review of Alzheimer's disease detection based on speech and natural language processing

A Ševčík, M Rusko - 2022 32nd International Conference …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objectives: The main goal of this review is to intro-duce the work with various conversational
datasets containing data from patients suffering from Alzheimer's disease. The basic …

Exploring linguistic feature and model combination for speech recognition based automatic ad detection

Y Wang, T Wang, Z Ye, L Meng, S Hu, X Wu… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is crucial in facilitating preventive care and
delay progression. Speech based automatic AD screening systems provide a non-intrusive …

Leveraging pretrained representations with task-related keywords for alzheimer's disease detection

J Li, K Song, J Li, B Zheng, D Li, X Wu… - ICASSP 2023-2023 …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Detecting Wilson's disease from unstructured connected speech: An embedding-based approach augmented by attention and bi-directional dependency

Z Zhang, LZ Yang, X Wang, H Wang, STC Wong… - Speech …, 2024 - Elsevier
Wilson's disease (WD) is a neurodegenerative genetic disorder in which dysarthria is the
initial neurological symptom. Automated WD diagnosis from speech is thus a promising and …