BMC psychiatry
May 8, 2025
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Accurate detection of schizophrenia poses a grand challenge as a complex and heterogeneous mental disorder. Current diagnostic criteria rely primarily on clinical symptoms, which may not fully capture individual differences ...
Sheng wu yi xue gong cheng xue za zhi = Journal of biomedical engineering = Shengwu yixue gongchengxue zazhi
Feb 25, 2025
The processing mechanism of the human brain for speech information is a significant source of inspiration for the study of speech enhancement technology. Attention and lateral inhibition are key mechanisms in auditory information processing that can ...
Psychophysiology
Feb 1, 2025
Speech production interferes with the measurement of changes in cardiac vagal activity during acute stress by attenuating the expected drop in heart rate variability. Speech also induces cardiac sympathetic changes similar to those induced by psychol...
PloS one
Jan 1, 2025
The growing reliance on video conferencing software brings significant benefits but also introduces challenges, particularly in managing audio quality. In multi-participant settings, ambient noise and interruptions can hinder speaker recognition and ...
JASA express letters
Nov 1, 2024
This paper describes an original dataset of children's speech, collected through the use of JIBO, a social robot. The dataset encompasses recordings from 110 children, aged 4-7 years old, who participated in a letter and digit identification task and...
Brain : a journal of neurology
Sep 3, 2024
Neurodegenerative dementia syndromes, such as primary progressive aphasias (PPA), have traditionally been diagnosed based, in part, on verbal and non-verbal cognitive profiles. Debate continues about whether PPA is best divided into three variants an...
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
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a prevalent disorder that can develop in people who have experienced very stressful, shocking, or distressing events. It has great influence on peoples' daily life and can affect their mental, physical, or soc...
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
Speech impairment resulting from laryngectomy causes severe physiological and psychological distress to laryngectomee. In clinical practice, the upper vocal tract articulatory organs function normally in most laryngectomee. The potential to reconstru...
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
Speech emotion recognition (SER) in health applications can offer several benefits by providing insights into the emotional well-being of individuals. In this work, we propose a method for SER using time-frequency representation of the speech signals...
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
Aphasia, a language disorder primarily caused by a stroke, is traditionally diagnosed using behavioral language tests. However, these tests are time-consuming, require manual interpretation by trained clinicians, suffer from low ecological validity, ...