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Bahman Mirheidari

3 accepted papers

2025

Early Dementia Detection Using Multiple Spontaneous Speech Prompts: The PROCESS Challenge

ICASSP 2025accepted

Dementia is associated with various cognitive impairments and typically manifests only after significant progression, making intervention at this stage often ineffective. To address this issue, the Prediction and Recognition of Cognitive Decline through Spontaneous Speech (PROCESS) Signal Processing…

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2025

Fairness in Automatic Speech Recognition Isn’t a One-Size-Fits-All

EMNLP 2025

Modern Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems are increasingly deployed in high-stakes settings, including clinical interviews, public services, and educational tools, where equitable performance across speaker groups is essential. While pre-trained speech models like Whisper achieve strong over

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2019

Computational Cognitive Assessment: Investigating the Use of an Intelligent Virtual Agent for the Detection of Early Signs of Dementia

ICASSP 2019accepted

The ageing population has caused a marked increased in the number of people with cognitive decline linked with dementia. Thus, current diagnostic services are overstretched, and there is an urgent need for automating parts of the assessment process. In previous work, we demonstrated how a stratifica…

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