Multi-Objective Optimization of Wavelet-Packet-Based Features in Pathological Diagnosis of Alzheimer Using Spontaneous Speech Signals
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Abstract
Alzheimer's disease (AD) ranks among the main types of neurodegenerative disorders. Patients suffering AD should tackle serious problems since their language skills malfunction. The impact of such disorders is reflected by reduced quality and feature variation of spontaneous speech signals in speech analysis. This paper aims at assessing the variations of some specific types of these energy- and entropy-based features within the frequency range of the speech signals. In the approach followed, the wavelet-packet coefficients are utilized to extract the energy and entropy measures at every spectral sub-band in six successive levels of decomposition. However, the decomposition process conducts a set of high-dimensional feature vectors that is a challenging task for feature selection. This study suggests the application of a Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm-II (NSGA-II) for enhancing a group of the sub-band indexes of a wavelet-packet for which the extracted features lead to the highest diagnosis rate of the grouping of Alzheimer's and healthy individuals. The technique proposed here showed that the best overall classification results for both optimized entropy feature vs. energy are more noticeable in discriminating patients with AD from healthy subjects. It is also confirmed the significant impact of multi-objective feature selection on performance of classification (i.e., disease diagnosis) and, its conformity to the disordered nature of the biological signals could help diagnose AD in an efficient manner.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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