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ArticleInterspeech2023

Combining Multiple Multimodal Speech Features into an Interpretable Index Score for Capturing Disease Progression in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.

Michael Neumann, Hardik Kothare, Vikram Ramanarayanan

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Article in Interspeech, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Michael NeumannModality.AI, Inc., San Francisco, USA.
Hardik KothareModality.AI, Inc., San Francisco, USA.
Vikram RamanarayananModality.AI, Inc., San Francisco, USA.

Funding

A digital tool for monitoring speech decline in ALSR42DC019877 · NIDCD · MODALITY.AI , INC · PI GREEN, JORDAN R, RAMANARAYANAN, VIKRAM · 2022 to 2024
$2.3M
NIDCD NIH HHS R42 DC019877
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Multiple speech biomarkers have been shown to carry useful information regarding Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) pathology. We propose a two-step framework to compute optimal linear combinations (indexes) of these biomarkers that are more discriminative and noise-robust than the individual markers, which is important for clinical care and pharmaceutical trial applications. First, we use a hierarchical clustering based method to select representative speech metrics from a dataset comprising 143 people with ALS and 135 age- and sex-matched healthy controls. Second, we analyze three methods of index computation that optimize linear discriminability, Youden Index, and sparsity of logistic regression model weights, respectively, and evaluate their performance with 5-fold cross validation. We find that the proposed indexes are generally more discriminative of bulbar vs non-bulbar onset in ALS than their individual component metrics as well as an equally-weighted baseline.

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amyotrophic lateral sclerosisclinical trialscomposite indexmultimodal dialogremote monitoringspeech biomarkers

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PMID39006832
PMCPMC11246072

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