Automated classification of primary progressive aphasia subtypes from narrative speech transcripts

Cortex

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 43-60

  Fraser, Kathleen C ^a   Meltzer, Jed A ^b   Graham, Naida L ^a,c   Leonard, Carol ^d   Hirst, Graeme ^a   Black, Sandra E ^e,f   Rochon, Elizabeth ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c TORONTO REHABILITATION INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^e SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Machine learning; Narrative speech; Natural language processing; Progressive nonfluent aphasia; Semantic dementia

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MACHINE LEARNING; MALE; NARRATIVE; PROGRESSIVE NONFLUENT APHASIA; SEMANTIC DEMENTIA; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH RATE; APHASIA, PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BAYES THEOREM; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; LANGUAGE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE NONFLUENT APHASIA; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

AGED; APHASIA, PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BAYES THEOREM; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NARRATION; PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE NONFLUENT APHASIA; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 84901428203     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2012.12.006     Document Type: Article

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