Early Dementia Detection Using Multiple Spontaneous Speech Prompts: The PROCESS Challenge
Dementia is associated with various cognitive impairments and typically manifests only after significant progression, making intervention at this stage often ineffective. To address this issue, the Prediction and Recognition of Cognitive Decline through Spontaneous Speech (PROCESS) Signal Processing Grand Challenge invites participants to focus on early-stage dementia detection. We provide a new spontaneous speech corpus for this challenge. This corpus includes answers from three prompts designed by neurologists to better capture the cognition of speakers. Our baseline models achieved an F1-score of 55.0% on the classification task and an RMSE of 2.98 on the regression task.
Authors
- Madhurananda Pahar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5926-0144)
- Ronan C. O’Malley (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4907-0339)
- Daniel Braun (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8120-3368)
- Fasih Haider (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5150-3359)
- Heidi Christensen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3028-5062)
- D. Blackburn (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8886-1283)
- Saturnino Luz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8430-7875)
- Simon Bell (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2781-6478)
- F. E. Peters (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8998-0062)
- Fuxiang Tao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-5729-9014)
- Hend ElGhazaly
- Bahman Mirheidari (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-8679-203X)
- Xiao Yao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4014-1708)
- S. Young
- Caitlin Illingworth (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-3800-7999)
Institutions
- University of Sheffield (GB)
- University of Edinburgh (GB)
Publication Details
- Published
- 2025-03-12
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1109/icassp49660.2025.10889017
- Citations
- 12
- Primary Topic
- Emotion and Mood Recognition
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 25.42
Funders
- HORIZON EUROPE Framework Programme