用本地大模型分析语音,隐私安全地早筛阿尔茨海默病。
LSEAD: A Privacy-Preserving LLM-Based Speech Analysis Framework for Early Alzheimer's Disease Screening

- 用开源大模型提取语音转录文本的语义特征,本地处理不传数据。
- 在两个数据集上准确率提升最高5%,尤其擅长早期阶段识别。
- 适合关注隐私保护与临床实用性的医疗AI研究者使用。
阿尔茨海默病(AD)的早期诊断对延缓病情进展、改善患者预后至关重要。当前亟需非侵入性且低成本的检测方法,尤其适用于真实临床场景中人群多样、录音条件各异的情况。基于语音的筛查无需特殊设备,可自然采集语音数据。近期大语言模型(LLMs)的发展提升了语音分析能力,因其能提供丰富的语言表征并具备强泛化性能。本文提出LSEAD框架,利用预训练开源大模型进行语音基线分析。语音录音自动转写为文本,再通过本地部署的LLM提取文本嵌入表示,经主成分分析(PCA)降维后进行分类。由于仅依赖语音转录文本和本地模型,该框架可在不传输数据的前提下实现隐私保护式的AD风险评估。我们在ADReSS20和ADReSSo2021基准数据集上评估了LSEAD。实验结果表明,基于LLM的嵌入在跨数据集间具有良好的泛化能力,相较于现有方法将AD分类准确率提升最高达5个百分点,尤其在早期阶段表现更优。这些结果证明,LSEAD为早期AD筛查提供了一种实用、安全且可扩展的解决方案。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is critical for enabling timely interventions that may slow disease progression and improve patient outcomes. There is a growing need for AD detection methods that are non-invasive and cost-effective, especially in real-world clinical settings with diverse patient populations and recording conditions. Speech-based screening addresses these needs by using natural speech collected without specialized equipment. Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have improved speech analysis by providing rich linguistic representations and strong generalization. In this study, we propose LSEAD, a speech-based AD detection framework using pretrained open-source LLMs. Speech recordings are automatically transcribed, and text embeddings are extracted using locally deployed LLMs. Principal component analysis (PCA) is applied to reduce dimensionality before classification. Because the framework relies only on speech transcripts and locally deployed models, it supports privacy-preserving AD risk assessment without external data exchange. We evaluate LSEAD on the ADReSS20 and ADReSSo2021 benchmark datasets. Experimental results show that LLM-based embeddings generalize well across datasets and improve AD classification accuracy by up to 5 percent over existing methods, especially for early-stage detection. These results demonstrate that LSEAD provides a practical, secure, and scalable approach for early AD screening.
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