6 papers
PROCESS-2: A Benchmark Speech Corpus for Early Cognitive Impairment Detection
Madhurananda Pahar, Caitlin H. Illingworth, Bahman Mirheidari +7
Speech-based analysis offers a scalable and non-invasive approach for detecting cognitive decline, yet progress has been constrained by the limited availability of clinically valid…
Can we trust AI to detect healthy multilingual English speakers among the cognitively impaired cohort in the UK? An investigation using real-world conversational speech
Madhurananda Pahar, Caitlin Illingworth, Dorota Braun +4
Conversational speech often reveals early signs of cognitive decline, such as dementia and MCI. In the UK, one in four people belongs to an ethnic minority, and dementia prevalence…
Deep Learning for Tuberculosis Screening in a High-burden Setting using Cough Analysis and Speech Foundation Models
Ning Ma, Bahman Mirheidari, Guy J. Brown +6
Artificial intelligence (AI) systems can detect disease-related acoustic patterns in cough sounds, offering a scalable and cost-effective approach to tuberculosis (TB) screening in…
Exploring Gender Disparities in Automatic Speech Recognition Technology
Hend ElGhazaly, Bahman Mirheidari, Nafise Sadat Moosavi +1
This study investigates factors influencing Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems' fairness and performance across genders, beyond the conventional examination of demographics…
CognoSpeak: an automatic, remote assessment of early cognitive decline in real-world conversational speech
Madhurananda Pahar, Fuxiang Tao, Bahman Mirheidari +8
The early signs of cognitive decline are often noticeable in conversational speech, and identifying those signs is crucial in dealing with later and more serious stages of neurodeg…
Early Dementia Detection Using Multiple Spontaneous Speech Prompts: The PROCESS Challenge
Fuxiang Tao, Bahman Mirheidari, Madhurananda Pahar +12
Dementia is associated with various cognitive impairments and typically manifests only after significant progression, making intervention at this stage often ineffective. To addres…