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COMPUTATIONAL COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT: INVESTIGATING THE USE OF AN INTELLIGENT VIRTUAL AGENT FOR THE DETECTION OF EARLY SIGNS OF DEMENTIA

Citation Author(s):
Bahman Mirheidari, Daniel Blackburn, Ronan O'Malley, Traci Walker, Annalena Venneri, Markus Reuber, Heidi Christensen
Submitted by:
Bahman Mirheidari
Last updated:
8 May 2019 - 4:12am
Document Type:
Poster
Document Year:
2019
Event:
Presenters:
Bahman Mirheidari
Paper Code:
2374
 

The ageing population has caused a marked increased in the number of people with cognitive decline linked with dementia. Thus, current diagnostic services are overstretched, and there is an urgent need for automating parts of the assessment process. In previous work, we demonstrated how a stratification tool built around an Intelligent Virtual Agent (IVA) eliciting a conversation by asking memory-probing questions, was able to accurately distinguish between people with a neuro-degenerative disorder (ND) and a functional memory disorder (FMD). In this paper, we extend the number of diagnostic classes to include healthy elderly controls (HCs) as well as people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI). We also investigate whether the IVA may be used for administering more standard cognitive tests, like the verbal fluency tests. A four-way classifier trained on an extended feature set achieved 48% accuracy, which improved to 62% by using just the 22 most significant features (ROC-AUC: 82%).

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