Publications by authors named "R Riad"
Background: While speech analysis holds promise for mental health assessment, research often focuses on single symptoms, despite symptom co-occurrences and interactions. In addition, predictive models in mental health do not properly assess the limitations of speech-based systems, such as uncertainty, or fairness for a safe clinical deployment.
Objective: We investigated the predictive potential of mobile-collected speech data for detecting and estimating depression, anxiety, fatigue, and insomnia, focusing on other factors than mere accuracy, in the general population.
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- Laryngomalacia (LM) and laryngeal cleft (LC) can cause difficulty swallowing (dysphagia) when present together, but it's uncommon for them to occur at the same time.
- The study discusses four patients who underwent surgeries for both conditions and highlights that while the stridor (a wheezing sound from the throat) resolved after supraglottoplasty (SGP) surgery, all patients continued to experience dysphagia.
- It suggests that flexible fiberoptic laryngoscopy might not reliably detect both conditions together and recommends performing SGP first, followed by laryngeal cleft repair (LCR) for better outcomes.
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- Huntington's Disease (HD) is a genetic neurodegenerative disorder affecting cognitive abilities, particularly spatial skills, and the authors aimed to assess these spatial deficits using language as a diagnostic tool.
- They developed a Spatial Description Model to evaluate patients' descriptions of spatial relations while performing the Cookie Theft Picture task, involving 78 individuals with HD and 25 healthy controls.
- Results showed that manifest HD patients displayed fewer spatial relations in their speech compared to healthy individuals, suggesting that language can effectively assess spatial disturbances in HD, potentially allowing for remote clinical evaluations.
Pregnant patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) represent a high-risk group. The aim of this study is to describe the pregnancy outcomes among SLE patients who were followed prospectively at a conjoint high-risk pregnancy/rheumatology clinic from 2007 to 2021 and to identify predictors of adverse maternal and fetal outcomes. This study included 201 singleton pregnancies of 123 women with SLE.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPatients with Huntington's disease suffer from disturbances in the perception of emotions; they do not correctly read the body, vocal and facial expressions of others. With regard to the expression of emotions, it has been shown that they are impaired in expressing emotions through face but up until now, little research has been conducted about their ability to express emotions through spoken language. To better understand emotion production in both voice and language in Huntington's Disease (HD), we tested 115 individuals: 68 patients (HD), 22 participants carrying the mutant HD gene without any motor symptoms (pre-manifest HD), and 25 controls in a single-centre prospective observational follow-up study.
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