BACKGROUND: Dementia associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurological disorder. AD is a progressive neurodegenerative condition that predominantly impacts the elderly population, although it can also manifest in younger people through the i...
Cognitive decline in Parkinson's disease (PD) varies widely. While models to predict cognitive progression exist, comparing traditional probabilistic models to deep learning methods remains understudied. This study compares sequential modeling techni...
The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences
Sep 1, 2024
Large Language Models (LLMs) stand on the brink of reshaping the field of aging and dementia care, challenging the one-size-fits-all paradigm with their capacity for precision medicine and individualized treatment strategies. The "Large Pre-Trained M...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 22, 2024
The population of dementia patients is on the rise, as society undergoes rapid aging. This led to an expansion of dementia-related data. This study aims to develop a comprehensive dementia ontology to facilitate the collection and analysis of high-qu...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 22, 2024
We applied natural language processing (NLP) to a corpus extracted from 4 hours of expert panel discussion transcripts to determine the sustainability of a Stage II-III clinical trial of online social support interventions for Hispanic and African Am...
Plasma protein biomarkers have been considered promising tools for diagnosing dementia subtypes due to their low variability, cost-effectiveness, and minimal invasiveness in diagnostic procedures. Machine learning (ML) methods have been applied to en...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2024
In dementia, particularly Alzheimer's Disease (AD), communication challenges are evident, especially in vocabulary and pragmatic aspects. Affected individuals often use vague, non-specific words, and their speech lacks informative nouns and verbs, le...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2024
Sensor-based remote healthcare monitoring is a promising approach for timely detection of adverse health events such as falls or infections in people living with dementia (PLwD) in the home, and reducing preventable hospital admissions. Current anoma...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2024
Deep learning models based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been used to classify Alzheimer's disease or infer dementia severity from T1-weighted brain MRI scans. Here, we examine the value of adding diffusion-weighted MRI (dMRI) as an in...
BACKGROUND: In recent years, Virtual Reality (VR) has emerged as a promising tool to improve the well-being and functional capabilities of older adults. Although VR applications have shown positive results, their impact on user experience and therape...