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Daniel Blackburn

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…

Cited by 24SourceScholar
2021

Multi-Task Estimation of Age and Cognitive Decline from Speech

ICASSP 2021accepted

Speech is a common physiological signal that can be affected by both ageing and cognitive decline. Often the effect can be confounding, as would be the case for people at, e.g., very early stages of cognitive decline due to dementia. Despite this, the automatic predictions of age and cognitive decli…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
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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