Cognitive Assessment of Japanese Older Adults with Text Data Augmentation
Current medical science has not yet found a cure for dementia. The most important measures to combat dementia are to detect the tendency toward cognitive decline as early as possible and to intervene at an early stage. For this reason, screening for dementia based on language ability has attracted m...
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| description | Current medical science has not yet found a cure for dementia. The most important measures to combat dementia are to detect the tendency toward cognitive decline as early as possible and to intervene at an early stage. For this reason, screening for dementia based on language ability has attracted much attention in recent years. However, in most of the previous studies, the cohort of people with dementia has been smaller than the control cohort. In this paper, we use a pre-trained Japanese language model for text analysis and evaluate the effectiveness of text augmentation on a dataset consisting of Japanese-speaking healthy older adults and those with mild cognitive impairment (MCI). We also examined what tasks contributed to the results. This experimental setting can also be used to detect other diseases that may affect the language areas of the brain outside of the hospital. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-23a6fc2e40054bc0a5e967adadf963b32023-12-02T00:31:41ZengMDPI AGHealthcare2227-90322022-10-011010205110.3390/healthcare10102051Cognitive Assessment of Japanese Older Adults with Text Data AugmentationToshiharu Igarashi0Misato Nihei1Department of Human and Engineered Environmental Studies, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwanoha 5-1-5, Chiba 277-8563, JapanDepartment of Human and Engineered Environmental Studies, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwanoha 5-1-5, Chiba 277-8563, JapanCurrent medical science has not yet found a cure for dementia. The most important measures to combat dementia are to detect the tendency toward cognitive decline as early as possible and to intervene at an early stage. For this reason, screening for dementia based on language ability has attracted much attention in recent years. However, in most of the previous studies, the cohort of people with dementia has been smaller than the control cohort. In this paper, we use a pre-trained Japanese language model for text analysis and evaluate the effectiveness of text augmentation on a dataset consisting of Japanese-speaking healthy older adults and those with mild cognitive impairment (MCI). We also examined what tasks contributed to the results. This experimental setting can also be used to detect other diseases that may affect the language areas of the brain outside of the hospital.https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/10/10/2051healthcareassistive technologiesnatural language processingcognitive functiondata augmentation |
| spellingShingle | Toshiharu Igarashi Misato Nihei Cognitive Assessment of Japanese Older Adults with Text Data Augmentation Healthcare healthcare assistive technologies natural language processing cognitive function data augmentation |
| title | Cognitive Assessment of Japanese Older Adults with Text Data Augmentation |
| title_full | Cognitive Assessment of Japanese Older Adults with Text Data Augmentation |
| title_fullStr | Cognitive Assessment of Japanese Older Adults with Text Data Augmentation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Cognitive Assessment of Japanese Older Adults with Text Data Augmentation |
| title_short | Cognitive Assessment of Japanese Older Adults with Text Data Augmentation |
| title_sort | cognitive assessment of japanese older adults with text data augmentation |
| topic | healthcare assistive technologies natural language processing cognitive function data augmentation |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/10/10/2051 |
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