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Deep language space neural network for classifying mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer-type dementia

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Orimaye, Sylvester Olubolu, Wong, Jojo Sze-Meng, Wong, Chee Piau·2018·PLOS ONE

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It has been quite a challenge to diagnose Mild Cognitive Impairment due to Alzheimer's disease (MCI) and Alzheimer-type dementia (AD-type dementia) using the currently available clinical diagnostic criteria and neuropsychological examinations. As such we propose an automated diagnostic technique using a variant of deep neural networks language models (DNNLM) on the verbal utterances of affected individuals. Motivated by the success of DNNLM on natural language tasks, we propose a combination of deep neural network and deep language models (D2NNLM) for classifying the disease. Results on the DementiaBank language transcript clinical dataset show that D2NNLM sufficiently learned several linguistic biomarkers in the form of higher order n-grams to distinguish the affected group from the healthy group with reasonable accuracy on very sparse clinical datasets.

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Authors
Orimaye, S. O., Wong, J. S.-M., & Wong, C. P.
Affiliations
  • East Tennessee State University (US)
  • Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (IE)
Corresponding author
Orimaye, Sylvester Olubolu
Venue
PLOS ONE
Published
2018-11-07
Volume
13
Issue
11
Pages
e0205636
ISSN
1932-6203 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W4233250549
Cited by
52
References
35
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4.53
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journal article
Language
en
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Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › Health Information Management › Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
Keywords
mild cognitive impairment, Alzheimer's disease, Alzheimer-type dementia, automated diagnosis, verbal utterances, linguistic biomarkers, n-grams, DementiaBank, dementia classification

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