4 papers
From Black-Box to Clinical Insight: A Multi-Stage Explainable Framework for Speech-Based Cognitive Impairment Detection
Yasaman Haghbin, Sina Rashidi, Ali Zolnour +6
Speech-based cognitive impairment detection offers a noninvasive, accessible alternative to costly biomarker assays, yet transformer-based models remain clinically uninterpretable.…
National Institute on Aging PREPARE Challenge: Early Detection of Cognitive Impairment Using Speech -- The SpeechCARE Solution
Maryam Zolnoori, Hossein Azadmaleki, Yasaman Haghbin +6
Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) affect one in five adults over 60, yet more than half of individuals with cognitive decline remain undiagnosed. Speech-based assess…
LLMCARE: early detection of cognitive impairment via transformer models enhanced by LLM-generated synthetic data
Ali Zolnour, Hossein Azadmaleki, Yasaman Haghbin +13
Alzheimer's disease and related dementias(ADRD) affect nearly five million older adults in the United States, yet more than half remain undiagnosed. Speech-based natural language p…
Speech-Based Cognitive Screening: A Systematic Evaluation of LLM Adaptation Strategies
Fatemeh Taherinezhad, Mohamad Javad Momeni Nezhad, Sepehr Karimi +6
Over half of US adults with Alzheimer disease and related dementias remain undiagnosed, and speech-based screening offers a scalable detection approach. We compared large language…