Semantic Pattern Analysis for Verbal Fluency Based Assessment of Neurological Disorders

Conference · Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2014

OSTI ID:1148856

Sukumar, Sreenivas R ^[1]; Ainsworth, Keela C ^[1]; Brown, Tyler C ^[1]

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1. ORNL

In this paper, we present preliminary results of semantic pattern analysis of verbal fluency tests used for assessing cognitive psychological and neuropsychological disorders. We posit that recent advances in semantic reasoning and artificial intelligence can be combined to create a standardized computer-aided diagnosis tool to automatically evaluate and interpret verbal fluency tests. Towards that goal, we derive novel semantic similarity (phonetic, phonemic and conceptual) metrics and present the predictive capability of these metrics on a de-identified dataset of participants with and without neurological disorders.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program
• DOE Contract Number: DE-AC05-00OR22725
• OSTI ID: 1148856
• Resource Relation: Conference: IEEE Annual ORNL Biomedical Science and Engineering Center Conference, Oak Ridge, TN, USA, 20140506, 20140508
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

verbal fluency tests
concept reasoning
semantic reasoning
semantic pattern analysis
neuropsychiatry
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