A review of automated speech and language features for assessment of cognitive and thought disorders

R Voleti, JM Liss, V Berisha - IEEE journal of selected topics in …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
It is widely accepted that information derived from analyzing speech (the acoustic signal)
and language production (words and sentences) serves as a useful window into the health …

Spoken language derived measures for detecting mild cognitive impairment

B Roark, M Mitchell, JP Hosom… - IEEE transactions on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Spoken responses produced by subjects during neuropsychological exams can provide
diagnostic markers beyond exam performance. In particular, characteristics of the spoken …

A multi-modal array of interpretable features to evaluate language and speech patterns in different neurological disorders

A Favaro, C Motley, T Cao, M Iglesias… - 2022 IEEE Spoken …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Speech-based automatic approaches for evaluating neurological disorders (NDs) depend
on feature extraction before the classification pipeline. It is preferable for these features to be …

A new diagnostic approach for the identification of patients with neurodegenerative cognitive complaints

S Al-Hameed, M Benaissa, H Christensen… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Neurodegenerative diseases causing dementia are known to affect a person's speech and
language. Part of the expert assessment in memory clinics therefore routinely focuses on …

Speech as a biomarker: Opportunities, interpretability, and challenges

V Ramanarayanan, AC Lammert, HP Rowe… - Perspectives of the ASHA …, 2022 - ASHA
Purpose: Over the past decade, the signal processing and machine learning literature has
demonstrated notable advancements in automated speech processing with the use of …

Automated assessment of psychiatric disorders using speech: A systematic review

DM Low, KH Bentley, SS Ghosh - Laryngoscope investigative …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Objective There are many barriers to accessing mental health assessments including cost
and stigma. Even when individuals receive professional care, assessments are intermittent …

[PDF][PDF] Detecting mild cognitive impairment by exploiting linguistic information from transcripts

V Vincze, G Gosztolya, L Tóth, I Hoffmann… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - aclanthology.org
Here we seek to automatically identify Hungarian patients suffering from mild cognitive
impairment (MCI) based on linguistic features collected from their speech transcripts. Our …

Automated detection of mild cognitive impairment and dementia from voice recordings: A natural language processing approach

S Amini, B Hao, L Zhang, M Song, A Gupta… - Alzheimer's & …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction Automated computational assessment of neuropsychological tests would
enable widespread, costeffective screening for dementia. Methods A novel natural …

Linguistic features and automatic classifiers for identifying mild cognitive impairment and dementia

L Calzà, G Gagliardi, RR Favretti… - Computer Speech & …, 2021 - Elsevier
Almost 50 million people are living with dementia in 2018 worldwide, and the number will
double every 20 years. The effectiveness of existing pharmacologic treatments for the …

Automated computerized analysis of speech in psychiatric disorders

AS Cohen, B Elvevåg - Current opinion in psychiatry, 2014 - journals.lww.com
Computer-based assessments of natural language afford a framework with which to
measure communication disturbances in adults with severe mental illnesses. Emerging …