Transformer-based deep neural network language models for Alzheimer's disease risk assessment from targeted speech

A Roshanzamir, H Aghajan… - BMC Medical Informatics …, 2021 - Springer
Background We developed transformer-based deep learning models based on natural
language processing for early risk assessment of Alzheimer's disease from the picture …

An overview of the ADReSS-M Signal Processing Grand Challenge on Multilingual Alzheimer's Dementia Recognition through Spontaneous Speech

S Luz, F Haider, D Fromm, I Lazarou… - IEEE Open Journal …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The ADReSS-M Signal Processing Grand Challenge was held at the 2023 IEEE
International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2023. The …

Language impairment in Alzheimer's disease—robust and explainable evidence for ad-related deterioration of spontaneous speech through multilingual machine …

H Lindsay, J Tröger, A König - Frontiers in aging neuroscience, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a pervasive neurodegenerative disease that affects millions
worldwide and is most prominently associated with broad cognitive decline, including …

Exploring deep transfer learning techniques for Alzheimer's dementia detection

Y Zhu, X Liang, JA Batsis, RM Roth - Frontiers in computer science, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Examination of speech datasets for detecting dementia, collected via various speech tasks,
has revealed links between speech and cognitive abilities. However, the speech dataset …

Evaluating voice-assistant commands for dementia detection

X Liang, JA Batsis, Y Zhu, TM Driesse, RM Roth… - Computer Speech & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Early detection of cognitive decline involved in Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias
(ADRD) in older adults living alone is essential for develo**, planning, and initiating …

[PDF][PDF] Discovering invariant patterns of cognitive decline via an automated analysis of the cookie thief picture description task

A Favaro, N Dehak, T Thebaud, J Villalba… - Proc. The Speaker …, 2024 - isca-archive.org
Abstract The Cookie Thief task has been extensively adopted to uncover patterns
characterizing Alzheimer's Disease (AD). Yet, how findings reported on this task generalize …

Rethinking domain adaptation for machine learning over clinical language

E Laparra, S Bethard, TA Miller - JAMIA open, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Building clinical natural language processing (NLP) systems that work on widely varying
data is an absolute necessity because of the expense of obtaining new training data. While …

Improving Alzheimer's disease detection for speech based on feature purification network

N Liu, Z Yuan, Q Tang - Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease involving the decline of cognitive
ability with illness progresses. At present, the diagnosis of AD mainly depends on the …

Connected speech-based cognitive assessment in Chinese and English

S Luz, SDLF Garcia, F Haider, D Fromm… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
We present a novel benchmark dataset and prediction tasks for investigating approaches to
assess cognitive function through analysis of connected speech. The dataset consists of …

How you say it matters: Measuring the impact of verbal disfluency tags on automated dementia detection

S Farzana, A Deshpande, N Parde - Proceedings of the 21st …, 2022 - aclanthology.org
Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems usually incorporate postprocessing
mechanisms to remove disfluencies, facilitating the generation of clear, fluent transcripts that …