Ronan O'Malley — accepted AI-conference papers

2025

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

Fuxiang Tao, Bahman Mirheidari, Madhurananda Pahar, Sophie Young, Yao Xiao, Hend Elghazaly +9

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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2019

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

Bahman Mirheidari, Daniel Blackburn, Ronan O'Malley, Traci Walker, Annalena Venneri, Markus Reuber +1

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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