Items where authors include "Mirheidari, B."

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Pan, Y., Mirheidari, B., Blackburn, D. et al. (1 more author) (2025) A two-step attention-based feature combination cross-attention system for speech-based dementia detection. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 33. pp. 896-907. ISSN 1063-6676

Walker, G. orcid.org/0000-0001-5022-4756, Pevy, N., O'Malley, R. et al. (4 more authors) (2024) Speech patterns in responses to questions asked by an intelligent virtual agent can help to distinguish between people with early stage neurodegenerative disorders and healthy controls. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 38 (9). pp. 880-901. ISSN 0269-9206

Mirheidari, B. orcid.org/0009-0009-8679-203X, Bittar, A., Cummins, N. et al. (3 more authors) (2024) Automatic detection of expressed emotion from five-minute speech samples: challenges and opportunities. PLOS ONE, 19 (3). e0300518. ISSN 1932-6203

Walker, G. orcid.org/0000-0001-5022-4756, Walker, T., O'Malley, R. et al. (4 more authors) (2023) Features of answers to questions about recent events by people with mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease, and healthy controls. Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders, 14 (3). pp. 408-429. ISSN 2040-5111

Walker, G. orcid.org/0000-0001-5022-4756, Morris, L.-A., Christensen, H. et al. (3 more authors) (2021) Characterising spoken responses to an intelligent virtual agent by persons with mild cognitive impairment. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 35 (3). pp. 237-252. ISSN 0269-9206

O'Malley, R.P.D., Mirheidari, B., Harkness, K. et al. (5 more authors) (2021) Fully automated cognitive screening tool based on assessment of speech and language. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 92 (1). pp. 12-15. ISSN 0022-3050

Walker, T. orcid.org/0000-0002-2583-7232, Christensen, H. orcid.org/0000-0003-3028-5062, Mirheidari, B. orcid.org/0000-0002-7797-2778 et al. (5 more authors) (2020) Developing an intelligent virtual agent to stratify people with cognitive complaints: A comparison of human-patient and intelligent virtual agent-patient interaction. Dementia, 19 (4). pp. 1173-1188. ISSN 1471-3012

Mirheidari, B., Pan, Y., Blackburn, D. et al. (5 more authors) (2020) Data augmentation using generative networks to identify dementia. arXiv. (Submitted)

Mirheidari, B., Pan, Y., Walker, T. orcid.org/0000-0002-2583-7232 et al. (4 more authors) (2019) Detecting Alzheimer's Disease by estimating attention and elicitation path through the alignment of spoken picture descriptions with the picture prompt. arXiv. (Submitted)

Al-Hameed, S. orcid.org/0000-0003-3617-9906, Benaissa, M. orcid.org/0000-0001-7524-9116, Christensen, H. orcid.org/0000-0003-3028-5062 et al. (3 more authors) (2019) A new diagnostic approach for the identification of patients with neurodegenerative cognitive complaints. PLoS ONE, 14 (5). e0217388. ISSN 1932-6203

Easton, K. orcid.org/0000-0002-7162-1109, Potter, S., Bec, R. et al. (8 more authors) (2019) A virtual agent to support individuals living with physical and mental comorbidities : co-design and acceptability testing. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 21 (5). e12996. ISSN 1439-4456

Mirheidari, B., Blackburn, D. orcid.org/0000-0001-8886-1283, Walker, T. orcid.org/0000-0002-2583-7232 et al. (2 more authors) (2019) Dementia detection using automatic analysis of conversations. Computer Speech and Language, 53. pp. 65-79. ISSN 0885-2308

Mirheidari, B., Blackburn, D., Harkness, K. et al. (4 more authors) (2017) Toward the automation of diagnostic conversation analysis in patients with memory complaints. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 58 (2). pp. 373-387. ISSN 1387-2877

Proceedings Paper

Young, S. orcid.org/0009-0004-7896-697X, Tao, F., Mirheidari, B. et al. (3 more authors) (2025) Can speech accurately detect depression in patients with comorbid dementia? An approach for mitigating confounding effects of depression and dementia. In: Scharenborg, O., Oertel, C. and Truong, K., (eds.) Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2025. Interspeech 2025, 17-21 Aug 2025, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) , pp. 499-503.

Pahar, M. orcid.org/0000-0002-5926-0144, Tao, F., Mirheidari, B. et al. (8 more authors) (2025) CognoSpeak: an automatic, remote assessment of early cognitive decline in real-world conversational speech. In: 2025 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Health and Medicine (CIHM). 2025 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Health and Medicine (CIHM), 17-20 Mar 2025, Trondheim, Norway. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , pp. 1-7. ISBN 9798331508340

Tao, F., Mirheidari, B., Pahar, M. orcid.org/0000-0002-5926-0144 et al. (12 more authors) (2025) Early dementia detection using multiple spontaneous speech prompts: The PROCESS challenge. In: ICASSP 2025 - 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). ICASSP 2025 - 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 06-11 Apr 2025, Hyderabad, India. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , pp. 1-2. ISBN 9798350368758

Alzahrani, F., Mirheidari, B., Blackburn, D. orcid.org/0000-0001-8886-1283 et al. (2 more authors) (2021) Eye blink rate based detection of cognitive impairment using in-the-wild data. In: 2021 9th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII). 9th International Conference on Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2021), 28 Sep - 01 Oct 2021, Nara, Japan (virtual conference). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers . ISBN 9781665400206

Beavis, L., O'Malley, R., Mirheidari, B. et al. (2 more authors) (2021) How can automated linguistic analysis help to discern functional cognitive disorder from healthy controls and mild cognitive impairment? In: BJPsych Open. RCPsych Virtual International Congress 2021, 21-24 Jun 2021, Virtual. Royal College of Psychiatrists , S7-S7.

O'Malley, R., Walker, T., Mirheidari, B. et al. (4 more authors) (2020) A fully automated cognitive screening tool based on assessment of speech and language. In: Alzheimer's & Dementia. Alzheimer's Association International Conference, 09-10 Nov 2020, Chicago, IL, USA (online). Wiley .

Pan, Y., Mirheidari, B., Tu, Z. et al. (6 more authors) (2020) Acoustic feature extraction with interpretable deep neural network for neurodegenerative related disorder classification. In: Proceedings of Interspeech 2020. Interspeech 2020, 25-29 Oct 2020, Shanghai, China. International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) , pp. 4806-4810.

Pan, Y., Mirheidari, B., Reuber, M. orcid.org/0000-0002-4104-6705 et al. (3 more authors) (2020) Improving detection of Alzheimer’s Disease using automatic speech recognition to identify high-quality segments for more robust feature extraction. In: Proceedings of Interspeech 2020. Interspeech 2020, 25-29 Oct 2020, Shanghai, China. International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) , pp. 4961-4965.

Pan, Y., Mirheidari, B., Reuber, M. orcid.org/0000-0002-4104-6705 et al. (3 more authors) (2019) Automatic hierarchical attention neural network for detecting AD. In: Kubin, G. and Kačič, Z., (eds.) Proceedings of Interspeech 2019. Interspeech 2019, 15-19 Sep 2019, Graz, Austria. International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) , pp. 4105-4109.

Mirheidari, B., Blackburn, D.J. orcid.org/0000-0001-8886-1283, Harkness, K. et al. (4 more authors) (2017) An avatar-based system for identifying individuals likely to develop dementia. In: Interspeech 2017. Interspeech 2017, 20-24 Aug 2017, Stockholm, Sweden. ISCA , pp. 3147-3151.

Mirheidari, B., Blackburn, D., Reuber, M. et al. (2 more authors) (2016) Diagnosing people with dementia using automatic conversation analysis. In: Proceedings of Interspeech. Interspeech, 08-12 Sep 2016, San Francisco, CA. ISCA , pp. 1220-1224.