Journal
ALZHEIMERS RESEARCH & THERAPY
Volume 13, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s13195-021-00888-3
Keywords
Dementia; Machine learning; Digital health; Voice recording; Neuropsychological testing
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Funding
- Karen Toffler Charitable Trust [32307-93]
- NIDDK Diabetic Complications Consortium [U24-DK115255]
- Strategically Focused Research Network (SFRN) Center from the American Heart Association [20SFRN35460031]
- Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering at Boston University
- Framingham Heart Study's National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute [N01-HC25195, HHSN268201500001I]
- NIH [R01-AG062109, R21-CA253498, R01-AG008122, R01-AG016495, R01-AG033040, R01-AG054156, R01-AG049810, U19 AG068753, R01-GM135930]
- Boston University's Affinity Research Collaboratives program, Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center [P30-AG013846]
- National Science Foundation [DMS-1664644, CNS-1645681, IIS-1914792]
- Office of Naval Research [N00014-19-1-2571]
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This study demonstrates that automated deep learning-driven processing of audio recordings of neuropsychological testing performed on individuals recruited within a community cohort setting can facilitate dementia screening.
Background Identification of reliable, affordable, and easy-to-use strategies for detection of dementia is sorely needed. Digital technologies, such as individual voice recordings, offer an attractive modality to assess cognition but methods that could automatically analyze such data are not readily available. Methods and findings We used 1264 voice recordings of neuropsychological examinations administered to participants from the Framingham Heart Study (FHS), a community-based longitudinal observational study. The recordings were 73 min in duration, on average, and contained at least two speakers (participant and examiner). Of the total voice recordings, 483 were of participants with normal cognition (NC), 451 recordings were of participants with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and 330 were of participants with dementia (DE). We developed two deep learning models (a two-level long short-term memory (LSTM) network and a convolutional neural network (CNN)), which used the audio recordings to classify if the recording included a participant with only NC or only DE and to differentiate between recordings corresponding to those that had DE from those who did not have DE (i.e., NDE (NC+MCI)). Based on 5-fold cross-validation, the LSTM model achieved a mean (+/- std) area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) of 0.740 +/- 0.017, mean balanced accuracy of 0.647 +/- 0.027, and mean weighted F1 score of 0.596 +/- 0.047 in classifying cases with DE from those with NC. The CNN model achieved a mean AUC of 0.805 +/- 0.027, mean balanced accuracy of 0.743 +/- 0.015, and mean weighted F1 score of 0.742 +/- 0.033 in classifying cases with DE from those with NC. For the task related to the classification of participants with DE from NDE, the LSTM model achieved a mean AUC of 0.734 +/- 0.014, mean balanced accuracy of 0.675 +/- 0.013, and mean weighted F1 score of 0.671 +/- 0.015. The CNN model achieved a mean AUC of 0.746 +/- 0.021, mean balanced accuracy of 0.652 +/- 0.020, and mean weighted F1 score of 0.635 +/- 0.031 in classifying cases with DE from those who were NDE. Conclusion This proof-of-concept study demonstrates that automated deep learning-driven processing of audio recordings of neuropsychological testing performed on individuals recruited within a community cohort setting can facilitate dementia screening.
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