Daniel Blackburn

33 papers A 12B 2C 1Misc 3Journal 11Unranked 4

Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2026	J	`jnl`	A Causal Validation augmented Temporal Convolutional Framework for Brain Effective Connectivity Networks Estimation. Neural Networks Aoxiang Dong, Jun Cao, Ptolemaios G. Sarrigiannis, Daniel Blackburn, Andrew Starr, Yifan Zhao
2026	J	`jnl`	Can we trust AI to detect healthy multilingual English speakers among the cognitively impaired cohort in the UK? An investigation using real-world conversational speech. CoRR Madhurananda Pahar, Caitlin H. Illingworth, Dorota Braun, Bahman Mirheidari, Lise Sproson, Daniel Blackburn, Heidi Christensen
2025	J	`jnl`	Automatic Detection of Early Cognitive Decline Using Multimodal Feature Fusion and Transfer Learning on Real-World Conversational Speech. IEEE J. Biomed. Health Informatics Madhurananda Pahar, Bahman Mirheidari, Caitlin H. Illingworth, Dorota Braun, Fuxiang Tao, Lise Sproson, Daniel Blackburn, Heidi Christensen
2025	J	`jnl`	CognoSpeak: an automatic, remote assessment of early cognitive decline in real-world conversational speech. CoRR Madhurananda Pahar, Fuxiang Tao, Bahman Mirheidari, Nathan Pevy, Rebecca Bright, Swapnil Gadgil, Lise Sproson, Dorota Braun, Caitlin H. Illingworth, Daniel Blackburn, Heidi Christensen
2025	Misc	`conf`	Early Dementia Detection Using Multiple Spontaneous Speech Prompts: The PROCESS Challenge. ICASSP Fuxiang Tao, Bahman Mirheidari, Madhurananda Pahar, Sophie Young, Yao Xiao, Hend Elghazaly, Fritz Peters, Caitlin H. Illingworth, Dorota Braun, Ronan O'Malley, Simon Bell, Daniel Blackburn, Fasih Haider, Saturnino Luz, Heidi Christensen
2025	—	`conf`	Single-Trial EEG Classification of Semantic Visual Targets in a Novel Oddball Task. MetroXRAINE Mian Kou, Daniel Blackburn, Mahnaz Arvaneh
2024	J	`jnl`	Dementia classification using a graph neural network on imaging of effective brain connectivity. Comput. Biol. Medicine Jun Cao, Lichao Yang, Ptolemaios G. Sarrigiannis, Daniel Blackburn, Yifan Zhao
2024	J	`jnl`	Early Dementia Detection Using Multiple Spontaneous Speech Prompts: The PROCESS Challenge. CoRR Fuxiang Tao, Bahman Mirheidari, Madhurananda Pahar, Sophie Young, Yao Xiao, Hend Elghazaly, Fritz Peters, Caitlin H. Illingworth, Dorota Braun, Ronan O'Malley, Simon Bell, Daniel Blackburn, Fasih Haider, Saturnino Luz, Heidi Christensen
2023	C	`conf`	Identifying People with Mild Cognitive Impairment at Risk of Developing Dementia using Speech Analysis. ASRU Bahman Mirheidari, Ronan O'Malley, Daniel Blackburn, Heidi Christensen
2023	B	`conf`	Investigating Visual Features for Cognitive Impairment Detection Using In-the-wild Data. FG Fatimah Alzahrani, Bahman Mirheidari, Daniel Blackburn, Steve Maddock, Heidi Christensen
2023	—	`conf`	Understanding Driving Behaviour in Individuals with Mild Cognitive Impairments: A Naturalistic Study. HCI (39) Vitaveska Lanfranchi, Muhammad Fadlian, Sheeba G. A. Koilpillai, Lise Sproson, Mark Burke, Sam Chapman, Daniel Blackburn
2022	A	`conf`	Automatic cognitive assessment: Combining sparse datasets with disparate cognitive scores. INTERSPEECH Bahman Mirheidari, Daniel Blackburn, Heidi Christensen
2022	—	`conf`	Bispectrum-based Cross-frequency Functional Connectivity: Classification of Alzheimer's disease. EMBC Dominik Klepl, Fei He, Min Wu, Daniel Blackburn, Ptolemaios G. Sarrigiannis
2022	A	`conf`	Evaluating the Performance of State-of-the-Art ASR Systems on Non-Native English using Corpora with Extensive Language Background Variation. INTERSPEECH Samuel Hollands, Daniel Blackburn, Heidi Christensen
2021	B	`conf`	Eye Blink Rate Based Detection of Cognitive Impairment Using In-the-wild Data. ACII Fatimah Alzahrani, Bahman Mirheidari, Daniel Blackburn, Steve Maddock, Heidi Christensen
2021	A	`conf`	Identifying Cognitive Impairment Using Sentence Representation Vectors. Interspeech Bahman Mirheidari, Yilin Pan, Daniel Blackburn, Ronan O'Malley, Heidi Christensen
2021	Misc	`conf`	Multi-Task Estimation of Age and Cognitive Decline from Speech. ICASSP Yilin Pan, Venkata Srikanth Nallanthighal, Daniel Blackburn, Heidi Christensen, Aki Härmä
2021	—	`conf`	Predicting Levels of Depression and Anxiety in People with Neurodegenerative Memory Complaints Presenting with Confounding Symptoms. SAI (3) Dalia Attas, Bahman Mirheidari, Daniel Blackburn, Annalena Venneri, Traci Walker, Kirsty Harkness, Markus Reuber, Chris Blackmore, Heidi Christensen
2021	J	`jnl`	Using interictal seizure-free EEG data to recognise patients with epilepsy based on machine learning of brain functional connectivity. Biomed. Signal Process. Control. Jun Cao, Kacper Grajcar, Xiaocai Shan, Yifan Zhao, Jiaru Zou, Liangyu Chen, Zhiqing Li, Richard Grunewald, Panagiotis Zis, Matteo De Marco, Zoe C. Unwin, Daniel Blackburn, Ptolemaios G. Sarrigiannis
2021	A	`conf`	Using the Outputs of Different Automatic Speech Recognition Paradigms for Acoustic- and BERT-Based Alzheimer's Dementia Detection Through Spontaneous Speech. Interspeech Yilin Pan, Bahman Mirheidari, Jennifer M. Harris, Jennifer C. Thompson, Matthew Jones, Julie S. Snowden, Daniel Blackburn, Heidi Christensen
2020	A	`conf`	A Comparison of Acoustic and Linguistics Methodologies for Alzheimer's Dementia Recognition. INTERSPEECH Nicholas Cummins, Yilin Pan, Zhao Ren, Julian Fritsch, Venkata Srikanth Nallanthighal, Heidi Christensen, Daniel Blackburn, Björn W. Schuller, Mathew Magimai-Doss, Helmer Strik, Aki Härmä
2020	A	`conf`	Acoustic Feature Extraction with Interpretable Deep Neural Network for Neurodegenerative Related Disorder Classification. INTERSPEECH Yilin Pan, Bahman Mirheidari, Zehai Tu, Ronan O'Malley, Traci Walker, Annalena Venneri, Markus Reuber, Daniel Blackburn, Heidi Christensen
2020	J	`jnl`	Data augmentation using generative networks to identify dementia. CoRR Bahman Mirheidari, Yilin Pan, Daniel Blackburn, Ronan O'Malley, Traci Walker, Annalena Venneri, Markus Reuber, Heidi Christensen
2020	J	`jnl`	Imaging of Nonlinear and Dynamic Functional Brain Connectivity Based on EEG Recordings With the Application on the Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease. IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging Yifan Zhao, Yitian Zhao, Pholpat Durongbhan, Liangyu Chen, Jiang Liu, S. A. Billings, Panagiotis Zis, Zoe C. Unwin, Matteo De Marco, Annalena Venneri, Daniel Blackburn, Ptolemaios G. Sarrigiannis
2020	A	`conf`	Improving Cognitive Impairment Classification by Generative Neural Network-Based Feature Augmentation. INTERSPEECH Bahman Mirheidari, Daniel Blackburn, Ronan O'Malley, Annalena Venneri, Traci Walker, Markus Reuber, Heidi Christensen
2020	A	`conf`	Improving Detection of Alzheimer's Disease Using Automatic Speech Recognition to Identify High-Quality Segments for More Robust Feature Extraction. INTERSPEECH Yilin Pan, Bahman Mirheidari, Markus Reuber, Annalena Venneri, Daniel Blackburn, Heidi Christensen
2019	A	`conf`	Automatic Hierarchical Attention Neural Network for Detecting AD. INTERSPEECH Yilin Pan, Bahman Mirheidari, Markus Reuber, Annalena Venneri, Daniel Blackburn, Heidi Christensen
2019	Misc	`conf`	Computational Cognitive Assessment: Investigating the Use of an Intelligent Virtual Agent for the Detection of Early Signs of Dementia. ICASSP Bahman Mirheidari, Daniel Blackburn, Ronan O'Malley, Traci Walker, Annalena Venneri, Markus Reuber, Heidi Christensen
2019	J	`jnl`	Dementia detection using automatic analysis of conversations. Comput. Speech Lang. Bahman Mirheidari, Daniel Blackburn, Traci Walker, Markus Reuber, Heidi Christensen
2019	J	`jnl`	Detecting Alzheimer's Disease by estimating attention and elicitation path through the alignment of spoken picture descriptions with the picture prompt. CoRR Bahman Mirheidari, Yilin Pan, Traci Walker, Markus Reuber, Annalena Venneri, Daniel Blackburn, Heidi Christensen
2018	A	`conf`	Detecting Signs of Dementia Using Word Vector Representations. INTERSPEECH Bahman Mirheidari, Daniel Blackburn, Traci Walker, Annalena Venneri, Markus Reuber, Heidi Christensen
2017	A	`conf`	An Avatar-Based System for Identifying Individuals Likely to Develop Dementia. INTERSPEECH Bahman Mirheidari, Daniel Blackburn, Kirsty Harkness, Traci Walker, Annalena Venneri, Markus Reuber, Heidi Christensen
2016	A	`conf`	Diagnosing People with Dementia Using Automatic Conversation Analysis. INTERSPEECH Bahman Mirheidari, Daniel Blackburn, Markus Reuber, Traci Walker, Heidi Christensen