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

Journal: Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association
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Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Automated computational assessment of neuropsychological tests would enable widespread, cost-effective screening for dementia.

Authors

  • Samad Amini
    Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Division of Systems Engineering, and Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA.
  • Boran Hao
    Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Division of Systems Engineering, and Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA.
  • LiFu Zhang
    Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China.
  • Mengting Song
    Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Division of Systems Engineering, and Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA.
  • Aman Gupta
    Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Division of Systems Engineering, and Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA.
  • Cody Karjadi
    Framingham Heart Study, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA.
  • Vijaya B Kolachalama
    1Section of Computational Biomedicine, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118 USA.
  • Rhoda Au
    Boston University School of Medicine, rhodaau@bu.edu.
  • Ioannis Ch Paschalidis
    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Division of Systems Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA.