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ArticleNPJ digital medicine2025

Clinical assessment and interpretation of dysarthria in ALS using attention based deep learning AI models.

Michele Merler, Carla Agurto, Julian Peller, Esteban Roitberg, Alan Taitz, Marcos A Trevisan, Indu Navar, James D Berry, Ernest Fraenkel, Lyle W Ostrow and 2 more

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Article in NPJ digital medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors.

Michele Merler *IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA.
Carla Agurto *IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA.
Julian PellerEverythingALS, Peter Cohen Foundation, Los Altos, CA, USA.
Esteban RoitbergEverythingALS, Peter Cohen Foundation, Los Altos, CA, USA.
Alan TaitzSRI International, Menlo Park, CA, USA.
Marcos A TrevisanUniversidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Departamento de Física - CONICET - Instituto de Física Interdisciplinaria y Aplicada (INFINA), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Indu NavarEverythingALS, Peter Cohen Foundation, Los Altos, CA, USA.
James D BerryMGH Institute of Health Professions, Boston, MA, USA.
Ernest FraenkelMassachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Lyle W OstrowLewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Guillermo A CecchiIBM Research, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA.
Raquel NorelIBM Research, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA. rnorel@us.ibm.com.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Speech dysarthria is a key symptom of neurological conditions like ALS, yet existing AI models designed to analyze it from audio signal rely on handcrafted features with limited inference performance. Deep learning approaches improve accuracy but lack interpretability. We propose an attention-based deep learning AI model to assess dysarthria severity based on listener effort ratings. Using 2,102 recordings from 125 participants, rated by three speech-language pathologists on a 100-point scale, we trained models directly from recordings collected remotely. Our best model achieved R

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PMCPMC12062206

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