Enhancing Early Detection of Mild Cognitive Impairment Using Preprocessed Connected Speech and Natural Language Processing
Chingching Lu, Pei‐Ning Wang · 2025
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Description
Chingching Lu and Pei-Ning Wang study how speech can reveal early memory trouble in this 2025 paper. They use a well-known picture task in which people describe a kitchen scene. Small slips in such speech can appear before dementia is clear.
The authors cleaned and sorted speech from fifty-four healthy adults, twenty-six people with mild impairment, and thirty-eight people with Alzheimer's disease. They scored how well each person covered nine main ideas in the picture. Some ideas split the groups sharply, while others did not. The authors argue that careful sorting of speech, aided by language software, can sharpen early detection.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Chingching Lu, Pei‐Ning Wang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |