Natural language processing techniques for studying language in pathological ageing: A sco** review

G Gagliardi - … Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Background In the past few years there has been a growing interest in the employment of
verbal productions as digital biomarkers, namely objective, quantifiable behavioural data …

[HTML][HTML] Smartphone applications for Movement Disorders: Towards collaboration and re-use

IHJ Willemse, S Schootemeijer… - Parkinsonism & Related …, 2024 - Elsevier
Background Numerous smartphone and tablet applications (apps) are available to monitor
movement disorders, but an overview of their purpose and stage of development is missing …

Speech and language characteristics differentiate Alzheimer's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies

Y Yamada, K Shinkawa, M Nemoto… - Alzheimer's & …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction Early differential diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and dementia with Lewy
bodies (DLB) is important, but it remains challenging. Different profiles of speech and …

Combining multimodal behavioral data of gait, speech, and drawing for classification of Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment

Y Yamada, K Shinkawa, M Kobayashi… - Journal of …, 2021 - content.iospress.com
Background: Gait, speech, and drawing behaviors have been shown to be sensitive to the
diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI). However …

A mobile application using automatic speech analysis for classifying Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment

Y Yamada, K Shinkawa, M Nemoto, K Nemoto… - Computer Speech & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Speech and language disturbances have been observed from the early stages of
Alzheimer's disease (AD), including mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and speech analysis …

[HTML][HTML] Automated analysis of drawing process to estimate global cognition in older adults: Preliminary international validation on the US and Japan data sets

Y Yamada, K Shinkawa, M Kobayashi… - JMIR formative …, 2022 - formative.jmir.org
Background With the aging of populations worldwide, early detection of cognitive
impairments has become a research and clinical priority, particularly to enable preventive …

Reading and lexical–semantic retrieval tasks outperforms single task speech analysis in the screening of mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease

I Martínez-Nicolás, F Martínez-Sánchez, O Ivanova… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Age-related cognitive impairment have increased dramatically in recent years, which has
risen the interes in develo** screening tools for mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's …

The generalizability of longitudinal changes in speech before Alzheimer's disease diagnosis

U Petti, S Baker, A Korhonen… - Journal of Alzheimer's …, 2023 - content.iospress.com
Background: Language impairment in Alzheimer's disease (AD) has been widely studied but
due to limited data availability, relatively few studies have focused on the longitudinal …

Automatic Assessment of Loneliness in Older Adults Using Speech Analysis on Responses to Daily Life Questions

Y Yamada, K Shinkawa, M Nemoto, T Arai - Frontiers in psychiatry, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Loneliness is a perceived state of social and emotional isolation that has been associated
with a wide range of adverse health effects in older adults. Automatically assessing …

[HTML][HTML] Detailed Analysis of Responses from Older Adults through Natural Speech: Comparison of Questions by AI Agents and Humans

T Igarashi, K Iijima, K Nitta, Y Chen - International Journal of …, 2024 - mdpi.com
In recent years, an increasing number of studies have begun to use conversational data in
spontaneous speech to estimate cognitive function in older people. The providers of …