Alzheimer’s Disease and Speech Background

Developing a possible diagnostic test for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) based on speech is used throughout this book to illustrate the application of the machine learning methods we describe. This application has many of the characteristics typical of such tasks: one has some idea that a set of features characterizing samples that one possesses might be able to classify the objects into two or more classes. Lacking sufficient depth of understanding of how this might be caused, one goes searching for useful patterns in the data—a fishing expedition.

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