Repeatability of commonly used speech and language features for clinical applications

GM Stegmann, S Hahn, J Liss, J Shefner… - Digital …, 2020 - karger.com
Introduction: Changes in speech have the potential to provide important information on the
diagnosis and progression of various neurological diseases. Many researchers have relied …

Detection of mild cognitive impairment through natural language and touchscreen typing processing

A Ntracha, D Iakovakis, S Hadjidimitriou… - Frontiers in Digital …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Mild cognitive impairment (MCI), an identified prodromal stage of Alzheimer's Disease (AD),
often evades detection in the early stages of the condition, when existing diagnostic …

A conversational robot for older adults with Alzheimer's disease

C Pou-Prom, S Raimondo, F Rudzicz - ACM Transactions on Human …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Amid the rising cost of Alzheimer's disease (AD), assistive health technologies can reduce
care-giving burden by aiding in assessment, monitoring, and therapy. This article presents a …

Exploring the use of natural language processing for objective assessment of disorganized speech in schizophrenia

L Jeong, M Lee, B Eyre, A Balagopalan… - Psychiatric …, 2023 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective Measurement‐based care tools in psychiatry are useful for symptom monitoring
and detecting response to treatment, but methods for quick and objective measurement are …

Performance of machine learning algorithms for dementia assessment: impacts of language tasks, recording media, and modalities

M Parsapoor, MR Alam, A Mihailidis - BMC Medical Informatics and …, 2023 - Springer
Objectives Automatic speech and language assessment methods (SLAMs) can help
clinicians assess speech and language impairments associated with dementia in older …

A speech-based prognostic model for dysarthria progression in ALS

G Stegmann, S Charles, J Liss, J Shefner… - … Lateral Sclerosis and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Objective We demonstrated that it was possible to predict ALS patients' degree of future
speech impairment based on past data. We used longitudinal data from two ALS studies …

[HTML][HTML] Island study linking aging and neurodegenerative disease (ISLAND) targeting dementia risk reduction: protocol for a prospective web-based cohort study

L Bartlett, K Doherty, M Farrow, S Kim… - JMIR Research …, 2022 - researchprotocols.org
Background: Up to 40% of incident dementia is considered attributable to behavioral and
lifestyle factors. Given the current lack of medical treatments and the projected increase in …

Using machine learning to predict children's reading comprehension from linguistic features extracted from speech and writing.

J Sinclair, EE Jang, F Rudzicz - Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
Advances in machine learning (ML) are poised to contribute to our understanding of the
linguistic processes associated with successful reading comprehension, which is a critical …

Digital measurement of mental health: challenges, promises, and future directions

A Abbas, K Schultebraucks… - Psychiatric Annals, 2021 - journals.healio.com
Digital health technologies are advancing characterization of mental health and functioning
using objective, sensitive, and scalable tools for measurement of disease. These efforts …

Multimodal capture of patient behaviour for improved detection of early dementia: clinical feasibility and preliminary results

P Jonell, B Moëll, K Håkansson, GE Henter… - Frontiers in Computer …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Non-invasive automatic screening for Alzheimer's disease has the potential to improve
diagnostic accuracy while lowering healthcare costs. Previous research has shown that …