Detecting Alzheimer's disease using natural language processing of referential communication task transcripts

Z Liu, EJ Paek, SO Yoon, D Casenhiser… - Journal of …, 2022 - content.iospress.com
Background: People with Alzheimer's disease (AD) often demonstrate difficulties in
discourse production. Referential communication tasks (RCTs) are used to examine a …

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 …

Linguistic features identify Alzheimer's disease in narrative speech

KC Fraser, JA Meltzer… - Journal of Alzheimer's …, 2016 - content.iospress.com
Background: Although memory impairment is the main symptom of Alzheimer's disease
(AD), language impairment can be an important marker. Relatively few studies of language …

Detecting Alzheimer's disease from continuous speech using language models

Z Guo, Z Ling, Y Li - Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 2019 - content.iospress.com
Background: Recently, many studies have been carried out to detect Alzheimer's disease
(AD) from continuous speech by linguistic analysis and modeling. However, few of them …

The Optimization of a Natural Language Processing Approach for the Automatic Detection of Alzheimer's Disease Using GPT Embeddings

BS Runde, A Alapati, NG Bazan - Brain Sciences, 2024 - mdpi.com
The development of noninvasive and cost-effective methods of detecting Alzheimer's
disease (AD) is essential for its early prevention and mitigation. We optimize the detection of …

Automatic hierarchical attention neural network for detecting AD

Y Pan, B Mirheidari, M Reuber… - … of Interspeech 2019, 2019 - eprints.whiterose.ac.uk
Picture description tasks are used for the detection of cognitive decline associated with
Alzheimer's disease (AD). Recent years have seen work on automatic AD detection in …

Pragmatic aspects of discourse production for the automatic identification of Alzheimer's disease

A Pompili, A Abad, DM de Matos… - IEEE Journal of …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Clinical literature provides convincing evidence that language deficits in Alzheimer's
disease (AD) allow for distinguishing patients with dementia from healthy subjects …

Classifying Alzheimer's disease using audio and text-based representations of speech

R Haulcy, J Glass - Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is a form of dementia that affects the memory, cognition, and motor
skills of patients. Extensive research has been done to develop accessible, cost-effective …

[PDF][PDF] Editorial: Alzheimer's dementia recognition through spontaneous speech

S Luz, F Haider, S De La Fuente Garcia, D Fromm… - Front. Comput …, 2021 - academia.edu
The need for inexpensive, safe, accurate and non-invasive biomarkers for Alzheimer's
disease (AD) has motivated much current research (Mandell and Green, 2011). While …

[HTML][HTML] Context is not key: Detecting Alzheimer's disease with both classical and transformer-based neural language models

B TaghiBeyglou, F Rudzicz - Natural Language Processing Journal, 2024 - Elsevier
Natural language processing (NLP) has exhibited potential in detecting Alzheimer's disease
(AD) and related dementias, particularly due to the impact of AD on spontaneous speech …