Dr Bahman Mirheidari

Journal articles

• Mirheidari B, Bittar A, Cummins N, Downs J, Fisher HL & Christensen H (2024) Automatic detection of expressed emotion from five-minute speech samples: challenges and opportunities. PLOS ONE, 19(3). View this article in WRRO
• Walker G, Morris L-A, Christensen H, Mirheidari B, Reuber M & Blackburn DJ (2021) Characterising spoken responses to an intelligent virtual agent by persons with mild cognitive impairment. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 35(3), 237-252. View this article in WRRO
• 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 T, Christensen H, Mirheidari B, Swainston T, Rutten C, Mayer I, Blackburn D & Reuber M (2020) Developing an intelligent virtual agent to stratify people with cognitive complaints: A comparison of human-patient and intelligent virtual agent-patient interaction. Dementia, 19(4), 1173-1188. 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
• 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

• 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, Vol. 7(S1) (pp S7-S7). Virtual, 21 June 2021 - 21 June 2021. View this article in WRRO
• 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). Chicago, IL, USA (online), 9 November 2020 - 9 November 2020. View this article in WRRO
• Pan Y, Mirheidari B, Reuber M, Venneri A, Blackburn D & Christensen H (2020) Improving detection of Alzheimer’s Disease using automatic speech recognition to identify high-quality segments for more robust feature extraction. Proceedings of Interspeech 2020 (pp 4961-4965). Shanghai, China, 25 October 2020 - 25 October 2020. View this article in WRRO
• Pan Y, Mirheidari B, Tu Z, O’Malley R, Walker T, Venneri A, Reuber M, Blackburn D & Christensen H (2020) Acoustic feature extraction with interpretable deep neural network for neurodegenerative related disorder classification. Proceedings of Interspeech 2020 (pp 4806-4810). Shanghai, China, 25 October 2020 - 25 October 2020. View this article in WRRO
• Pan Y, Mirheidari B, Reuber M, Venneri A, Blackburn D & Christensen H (2019) Automatic hierarchical attention neural network for detecting AD. Proceedings of Interspeech 2019 (pp 4105-4109). Graz, Austria, 15 September 2019 - 15 September 2019. 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) (pp 2732-2736), 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). Stockholm, Sweden, 20 August 2017 - 20 August 2017. 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 (pp 1220-1224). San Francisco, CA, 8 September 2016 - 8 September 2016. View this article in WRRO
• 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 (pp 2527-2531)
• Mirheidari B, Blackburn D, Walker T, Venneri A, Reuber M & Christensen H () Detecting Signs of Dementia Using Word Vector Representations. Interspeech 2018 (pp 1893-1897)

Preprints

• 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), JMIR Publications Inc..