'Eye-Tracking' with Words for Alzheimer's Disease Detection: Time Alignment of Words Enunciation with Image Regions During Image Description Tasks.

Background: Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that results in cognitive decline, dementia, and eventually death. Diagnosing early signs of AD can help clinicians to improve the quality of life.

Objective: We developed a non-invasive approach to help neurologists and clinicians to distinguish probable AD patients and healthy controls (HC).