Alzheimer's Dementia Detection Through Machine Learning: Analyzing Linguistic and Acoustic Features in Spontaneous Speech

Z Shah - 2023 - era.library.ualberta.ca
With the rapid aging of the world's population, the global burden of agingrelated mental
disorders, such as Alzheimer's dementia (AD), is also on the rise. Unfortunately global …

Learning language and acoustic models for identifying Alzheimer's dementia from speech

Z Shah, J Sawalha, M Tasnim, S Qi… - Frontiers in Computer …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Alzheimer's dementia (AD) is a chronic neurodegenerative illness that manifests in a
gradual decline of cognitive function. Early identification of AD is essential for managing the …

Multilingual alzheimer's dementia recognition through spontaneous speech: a signal processing grand challenge

S Luz, F Haider, D Fromm, I Lazarou… - ICASSP 2023-2023 …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This Signal Processing Grand Challenge (SPGC) targets a difficult automatic prediction
problem of societal and medical relevance, namely, the detection of Alzheimer's Dementia …

Alzheimer's disease and speech background

WH Land Jr, JD Schaffer, WH Land… - The art and science of …, 2020 - Springer
Developing a possible diagnostic test for Alzheimer's disease (AD) based on speech is used
throughout this book to illustrate the application of the machine learning methods we …

Alzheimer's dementia speech (audio vs. text): Multi-modal machine learning at high vs. low resolution

P Priyadarshinee, CJ Clarke, J Melechovsky, CMY Lin… - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Automated techniques to detect Alzheimer's Dementia through the use of audio recordings
of spontaneous speech are now available with varying degrees of reliability. Here, we …

Multi-modal fusion with gating using audio, lexical and disfluency features for Alzheimer's dementia recognition from spontaneous speech

M Rohanian, J Hough, M Purver - arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.09668, 2021 - arxiv.org
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 …

[PDF][PDF] Deep Learning Approaches for Detecting Alzheimer's Dementia from Conversational Speech of ILSE Study.

A Ablimit, K Scholz, T Schultz - INTERSPEECH, 2022 - isca-archive.org
Automatic screening of Alzheimer's Dementia (AD) can have significant impact on society
and the well-being of the patients. Early detection of AD from spontaneous speech offers …

The Influence of Automatic Speech Recognition on Linguistic Features and Automatic Alzheimer's Disease Detection from Spontaneous Speech

J Heitz, G Schneider, N Langer - Proceedings of the 2024 Joint …, 2024 - aclanthology.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) represents a major problem for society and a heavy burden for
those affected. The study of changes in speech offers a potential means for large-scale AD …

Comparing pre-trained and feature-based models for prediction of Alzheimer's disease based on speech

A Balagopalan, B Eyre, J Robin, F Rudzicz… - Frontiers in aging …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Introduction: Research related to the automatic detection of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is
important, given the high prevalence of AD and the high cost of traditional diagnostic …

Exploring language-agnostic speech representations using domain knowledge for detecting alzheimer's dementia

Z Shah, SA Qi, F Wang, M Farrokh… - ICASSP 2023-2023 …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We explore ways to use speech data to screen for indications of Alzheimer's dementia (AD).
In particular, we describe our approach to the ICASSP 2023 Signal Processing Grand …