Barbara Ruvolo

Automatic Parkinson's disease detection from speech: Layer selection vs adaptation of foundation models

In this work, we investigate Speech Foundation Models (SFMs) for Parkinson’s Disease (PD) detection. We explore two main approaches: (1) using SFMs as frozen feature extractors and, (2) fine-tuning/adapting SFMs for PD detection. We propose a cross-validation-based layer selection methodology to ide…