395 research outputs found
Automatic analysis of speech F0 contour for the characterization of mood changes in bipolar patients
da inserireBipolar disorders are characterized by a mood swing, ranging from mania to depression. A system that could monitor and eventually predict these changes would be useful to improve therapy and avoid dangerous events. Speech might convey relevant information about subjects' mood and there is a growing interest to study its changes in presence of mood disorders. In this work we present an automatic method to characterize fundamental frequency (F0) dynamics in voiced part of syllables. The method performs a segmentation of voiced sounds from running speech samples and estimates two categories of features. The first category is borrowed from Taylor's Tilt intonational model. However, the meaning of the proposed features is different from the meaning of Taylor's ones since the former are estimated from all voiced segments without performing any analysis of intonation. A second category of features takes into account the speed of change of F0. In this work, the proposed features are first estimated from an emotional speech database. Then, an analysis on speech samples acquired from eleven psychiatric patients experiencing different mood states, and eighteen healthy control subjects is introduced. Subjects had to perform a text reading task and a picture commenting task. The results of the analysis on the emotional speech database indicate that the proposed features can discriminate between high and low arousal emotions. This was verified both at single subject and group level. An intra-subject analysis was performed on bipolar patients and it highlighted significant changes of the features with different mood states, although this was not observed for all the subjects. The directions of the changes estimated for different patients experiencing the same mood swing, were not coherent and were task-dependent. Interestingly, a single-subject analysis performed on healthy controls and on bipolar patients recorded twice with the same mood label, resulted in a very small number of significant differences. In particular a very good specificity was highlighted for the Taylor-inspired features and for a subset of the second category of features, thus strengthening the significance of the results obtained with patients. Even if the number of enrolled patients is small, this work suggests that the proposed features might give a relevant contribution to the demanding research field of speech-based mood classifiers. Moreover, the results here presented indicate that a model of speech changes in bipolar patients might be subject-specific and that a richer characterization of subject status could be necessary to explain the observed variability
DepressziĂł detektálása korreláciĂłs struktĂşrán alkalmazott konvolĂşciĂłs hálĂłk segĂtsĂ©gĂ©vel
Jelen kutatásban a depressziĂłs állapot automatikus detektálásának lehetĹ‘sĂ©gĂ©t vizsgáltuk a beszĂ©djelbĹ‘l kinyert speciális korreláciĂłs struktĂşrán alkalmazott konvolĂşciĂłs neurális hálok segĂtsĂ©gĂ©vel. A depressziĂł korunk egyik legelterjedtebb gyĂłgyĂthatĂł pszichiátriai betegsĂ©ge. A depressziĂłtĂłl szenvedĹ‘ egyĂ©n Ă©letminĹ‘sĂ©gĂ©t nagymĂ©rtĂ©kben befolyásolja a depressziĂł sĂşlyossága, ami extrĂ©m esetben öngyilkossághoz is vezethet. Ezek alapján kulcsfontosságĂş, hogy már korai stádiumában felismerhetĹ‘ legyen a betegsĂ©g Ă©s az illetĹ‘ megfelelĹ‘ kezelĂ©sben rĂ©szesĂĽljön, azonban a depressziĂł diagnosztizálása szakĂ©rtelmet kĂván, emiatt fontos a depressziĂł esetleges jelenlĂ©tĂ©nek automatikus jelzĂ©se. Ebben a cikkben egy olyan eljárást mutatunk be, ami beszĂ©djel feldolgozása alapján tisztán spektrális jellemzĹ‘kön keresztĂĽl kĂ©pes felismerni a depressziĂłt konvolĂşciĂłs neurális hálĂłk alkalmazásának segĂtsĂ©gĂ©vel. Bemutatjuk, hogyan változik a depressziĂł detektálásának pontossága kĂĽlönbözĹ‘ akusztikai-fonetikai jellemzĹ‘k felhasználása alapján, illetve a korreláciĂłs struktĂşrának változtatása következtĂ©ben. A mĂłdszer alkalmazásával 84%-os pontossággal tudtuk elkĂĽlönĂteni az egĂ©szsĂ©ges Ă©s depressziĂłs szemĂ©lyeket a beszĂ©dmintáik alapján
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Application of Deep Learning to Brain Connectivity Classification in Large MRI Datasets
The use of machine learning for whole-brain classification of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data is of clear interest, both for understanding phenotypic differences in brain structure and function and for diagnostic applications. Developments of deep learning models in the past decade have revolutionized photographic image and speech recognition, bringing promise to do the same to other fields of science. However, there are many practical and theoretical challenges in the translation of such methods to the unique context of MRIs of the brain. This thesis presents a theoretical underpinning for whole-brain classification of extremely large datasets of multi-site MRIs, including machine learning model architecture, dataset curation methods, machine learning visualization methods, encoding of MRI data, and feature extraction. To replicate large sample sizes typically applied to deep learning models, a dataset of over 50,000 functional and structural MRIs was amassed from nine different databases, and the undertaken analyses were conducted on three covariates commonly found across these collections: sex, resting state/task, and autism spectrum disorder. I find that deep learning is not only a method that has promise for clinical application in the future, but also a powerful statistical tool for analyzing complex, nonlinear relationships in brain data where conventional statistics may fail. However, results are also dependent on factors such as dataset imbalances, confounding factors such as motion and head size, selected methods of encoding MRI data, variability of machine learning models and selected methods of visualizing the machine learning results. In this thesis, I present the following methodological innovations: (1) a method of balancing datasets as a means of regressing out measurable confounding factors; (2) a means of removing spatial biases from deep learning visualization methods; (3) methods of encoding functional and structural datasets as connectivity matrices; (4) the use of ensemble models and convolutional neural network architectures to improve classification accuracy and consistency; (5) adaptation of deep learning visualization methods to study brain connections utilized in the classification process. Additionally, I discuss interpretations, limitations, and future directions of this research.Gates Cambridge Scholarshi
Neurological and Mental Disorders
Mental disorders can result from disruption of neuronal circuitry, damage to the neuronal and non-neuronal cells, altered circuitry in the different regions of the brain and any changes in the permeability of the blood brain barrier. Early identification of these impairments through investigative means could help to improve the outcome for many brain and behaviour disease states.The chapters in this book describe how these abnormalities can lead to neurological and mental diseases such as ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), anxiety disorders, Alzheimer’s disease and personality and eating disorders. Psycho-social traumas, especially during childhood, increase the incidence of amnesia and transient global amnesia, leading to the temporary inability to create new memories.Early detection of these disorders could benefit many complex diseases such as schizophrenia and depression
Text Mining Methods for Analyzing Online Health Information and Communication
The Internet provides an alternative way to share health information. Specifically, social network systems such as Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, and disease specific online support forums are increasingly being used to share information on health related topics. This could be in the form of personal health information disclosure to seek suggestions or answering other patients\u27 questions based on their history. This social media uptake gives a new angle to improve the current health communication landscape with consumer generated content from social platforms. With these online modes of communication, health providers can offer more immediate support to the people seeking advice. Non-profit organizations and federal agencies can also diffuse preventative information in such networks for better outcomes. Researchers in health communication can mine user generated content on social networks to understand themes and derive insights into patient experiences that may be impractical to glean through traditional surveys. The main difficulty in mining social health data is in separating the signal from the noise. Social data is characterized by informal nature of content, typos, emoticons, tonal variations (e.g. sarcasm), and ambiguities arising from polysemous words, all of which make it difficult in building automated systems for deriving insights from such sources.
In this dissertation, we present four efforts to mine health related insights from user generated social data. In the first effort, we build a model to identify marketing tweets on electronic cigarettes (e-cigs) and assess different topics in marketing and non-marketing messages on e-cigs on Twitter. In our next effort, we build ensemble models to classify messages on a mental health forum for triaging posts whose authors need immediate attention from trained moderators to prevent self-harm. The third effort deals with models from our participation in a shared task on identifying tweets that discuss adverse drug reactions and those that mention medication intake. In the final task, we build a classifier that identifies whether a particular tweet about the popular Juul e-cig indicates the tweeter actually using the product. Our methods range from linear classifiers (e.g., logistic regression), classical nonlinear models (e.g., nearest neighbors), recent deep neural networks (e.g., convolutional neural networks), and ensembles of all these models in using different supervised training regimens (e.g., co-training). The focus is more on task specific system building than on building specific individual models. Overall, we demonstrate that it is possible to glean insights from social data on health related topics through natural language processing and machine learning with use-cases from substance use and mental health
Multimodal analysis of verbal and nonverbal behaviour on the example of clinical depression
Clinical depression is a common mood disorder that may last for long periods, vary
in severity, and could impair an individual’s ability to cope with daily life. Depression
affects 350 million people worldwide and is therefore considered a burden not
only on a personal and social level, but also on an economic one. Depression is the
fourth most significant cause of suffering and disability worldwide and it is predicted
to be the leading cause in 2020.
Although treatment of depression disorders has proven to be effective in most
cases, misdiagnosing depressed patients is a common barrier. Not only because
depression manifests itself in different ways, but also because clinical interviews and
self-reported history are currently the only ways of diagnosis, which risks a range
of subjective biases either from the patient report or the clinical judgment. While
automatic affective state recognition has become an active research area in the past
decade, methods for mood disorder detection, such as depression, are still in their
infancy. Using the advancements of affective sensing techniques, the long-term goal
is to develop an objective multimodal system that supports clinicians during the
diagnosis and monitoring of clinical depression.
This dissertation aims to investigate the most promising characteristics of depression
that can be “heard” and “seen” by a computer system for the task of detecting
depression objectively. Using audio-video recordings of a clinically validated
Australian depression dataset, several experiments are conducted to characterise
depression-related patterns from verbal and nonverbal cues. Of particular interest in
this dissertation is the exploration of speech style, speech prosody, eye activity, and
head pose modalities. Statistical analysis and automatic classification of extracted
cues are investigated. In addition, multimodal fusion methods of these modalities
are examined to increase the accuracy and confidence level of detecting depression.
These investigations result in a proposed system that detects depression in a binary
manner (e.g. depressed vs. non-depressed) using temporal depression behavioural
cues.
The proposed system: (1) uses audio-video recordings to investigate verbal and
nonverbal modalities, (2) extracts functional features from verbal and nonverbal
modalities over the entire subjects’ segments, (3) pre- and post-normalises the extracted
features, (4) selects features using the T-test, (5) classifies depression in a
binary manner (i.e. severely depressed vs. healthy controls), and finally (6) fuses the
individual modalities.
The proposed system was validated for scalability and usability using generalisation
experiments. Close studies were made of American and German depression
datasets individually, and then also in combination with the Australian one. Applying
the proposed system to the three datasets showed remarkably high classification results - up to a 95% average recall for the individual sets and 86% for the three
combined. Strong implications are that the proposed system has the ability to generalise
to different datasets recorded under quite different conditions such as collection
procedure and task, depression diagnosis testing and scale, as well as cultural and
language background. High performance was found consistently in speech prosody
and eye activity in both individual and combined datasets, with head pose features
a little less remarkable. Strong indications are that the extracted features are robust
to large variations in recording conditions. Furthermore, once the modalities were
combined, the classification results improved substantially. Therefore, the modalities
are shown both to correlate and complement each other, working in tandem as an
innovative system for diagnoses of depression across large variations of population
and procedure
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