Dr Bahman Mirheidari

Journal articles

• Mirheidari B, Bittar A, Cummins N, Downs J, Fisher HL & Christensen H (2022) Automatic detection of expressed emotion from Five-Minute Speech Samples: Challenges and opportunities. PLOS ONE, 19(3), e0300518-e0300518.
• Beavis L, O'Malley R, Mirheidari B, Christensen H & Blackburn D (2021) How can automated linguistic analysis help to discern functional cognitive disorder from healthy controls and mild cognitive impairment?. BJPsych Open, 7(S1), S7-S7.
• O'Malley RPD, Mirheidari B, Harkness K, Reuber M, Venneri A, Walker T, Christensen H & Blackburn D (2021) Fully automated cognitive screening tool based on assessment of speech and language. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 92(1), 12-15. View this article in WRRO
• O’Malley R, Morris L-A, Longden C, Turner A, Walker T, Venneri A, Mirheidari B, Christensen H, Reuber M & Blackburn D (2020) 26 Can an automated assessment of language help distinguish between Functional Cognitive Disorder and early neurodegeneration?. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 91(8), e18.2-e19.
• Walker G, Morris L-A, Christensen H, Mirheidari B, Reuber M & Blackburn DJ (2020) Characterising spoken responses to an intelligent virtual agent by persons with mild cognitive impairment. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics. View this article in WRRO
• Mirheidari B, Pan Y, Blackburn D, O'Malley R, Walker T, Venneri A, Reuber M & Christensen H (2020) Data augmentation using generative networks to identify dementia.. CoRR, abs/2004.05989. View this article in WRRO
• Easton K, Potter S, Bec R, Bennion M, Christensen H, Grindell C, Mirheidari B, Weich S, de Witte L, Wolstenholme D & Hawley M (2019) A virtual agent to support individuals living with physical and mental comorbidities : co-design and acceptability testing. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 21(5). View this article in WRRO
• Al-Hameed S, Benaissa M, Christensen H, Mirheidari B, Blackburn D & Reuber M (2019) A new diagnostic approach for the identification of patients with neurodegenerative cognitive complaints. PLoS ONE, 14(5). View this article in WRRO
• Mirheidari B, Blackburn D, Walker T, Reuber M & Christensen H (2019) Dementia detection using automatic analysis of conversations. Computer Speech and Language, 53, 65-79. View this article in WRRO
• Walker T, Christensen H, Mirheidari B, Swainston T, Rutten C, Mayer I, Blackburn D & Reuber M (2018) Developing an intelligent virtual agent to stratify people with cognitive complaints: A comparison of human-patient and intelligent virtual agent-patient interaction.. Dementia. View this article in WRRO
• Blackburn D, Mirheidari BM, Rutten C, Mayer I, Walker T, Christensen H & Rueber M (2017) PO029 An avatar aid in memory clinic. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 88(Suppl 1), A19.4-A20.
• Mirheidari B, Blackburn D, Harkness K, Walker T, Venneri A, Reuber M & Christensen H (2017) Toward the Automation of Diagnostic Conversation Analysis in Patients with Memory Complaints. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 58(2), 373-387. View this article in WRRO

Conference proceedings papers

• O'Malley R, Walker T, Mirheidari B, Christensen H, Reuber M, Blackburn DJ & Venneri A (2020) A fully automated cognitive screening tool based on assessment of speech and language. Alzheimer's & Dementia, Vol. 16(S6) View this article in WRRO
• Mirheidari B, Blackburn D, OrMalley R, Walker T, Venneri A, Reuber M & Christensen H (2019) Computational Cognitive Assessment: Investigating the Use of an Intelligent Virtual Agent for the Detection of Early Signs of Dementia. ICASSP 2019 - 2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 12 May 2019 - 17 May 2019.
• Blackburn D, Reuber M, Christensen H, Mayer I, Rutten C, Venneri A, chirs E & Mirheidari B (2017) An avatar to screen for cognitive impairment. Journal of the Neurological Sciences, Vol. 381 (pp 319-319)
• Mirheidari B, Blackburn DJ, Harkness K, Walker T, Venneri A, Reuber M & Christensen H (2017) An Avatar-based system for identifying individuals likely to develop dementia. Interspeech 2017 (pp 3147-3151) View this article in WRRO
• Mirheidari B, Blackburn D, Reuber M, Walker T & Christensen H (2016) Diagnosing people with dementia using automatic conversation analysis. Proceedings of Interspeech 2016 (pp 1220-1224) View this article in WRRO
• Pan Y, Mirheidari B, Reuber M, Venneri A, Blackburn D & Christensen H () Improving Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease Using Automatic Speech Recognition to Identify High-Quality Segments for More Robust Feature Extraction. Interspeech 2020
• Mirheidari B, Blackburn D, O’Malley R, Venneri A, Walker T, Reuber M & Christensen H () Improving Cognitive Impairment Classification by Generative Neural Network-Based Feature Augmentation. Interspeech 2020
• Pan Y, Mirheidari B, Tu Z, O’Malley R, Walker T, Venneri A, Reuber M, Blackburn D & Christensen H () Acoustic Feature Extraction with Interpretable Deep Neural Network for Neurodegenerative Related Disorder Classification. Interspeech 2020
• Pan Y, Mirheidari B, Reuber M, Venneri A, Blackburn D & Christensen H () Automatic Hierarchical Attention Neural Network for Detecting AD. Interspeech 2019
• Mirheidari B, Blackburn D, Walker T, Venneri A, Reuber M & Christensen H () Detecting Signs of Dementia Using Word Vector Representations. Interspeech 2018

Preprints

• Mirheidari B, Pan Y, Walker T, Reuber M, Venneri A, Blackburn D & Christensen H (2019) Detecting Alzheimer's Disease by estimating attention and elicitation path through the alignment of spoken picture descriptions with the picture prompt.. View this article in WRRO
• Easton K, Potter S, Bec R, Bennion M, Christensen H, Grindell C, Mirheidari B, Weich S, de Witte L, Wolstenholme D & Hawley MS () A Virtual Agent to Support Individuals Living With Physical and Mental Comorbidities: Co-Design and Acceptability Testing (Preprint).