A Few-Shot Approach to Dysarthric Speech Intelligibility Level Classification Using Transformers

Dysarthria is a speech disorder that hinders communication due to difficulties in articulating words. Detection of dysarthria is important for several reasons as it can be used to develop a treatment plan and help improve a person's quality of life and ability to communicate effectively. Much of the literature focused on improving ASR systems for dysarthric speech. The objective of the current work is to develop models that can accurately classify the presence of dysarthria and also give information about the intelligibility level using limited data by employing a few-shot approach using a transformer model. This work also aims to tackle the data leakage that is present in previous studies. Our whisper-large-v2 transformer model trained on a subset of the UASpeech dataset containing medium intelligibility level patients achieved an accuracy of 85%, precision of 0.92, recall of 0.8 F1-score of 0.85, and specificity of 0.91. Experimental results also demonstrate that the model trained using the 'words' dataset performed better compared to the model trained on the 'letters' and 'digits' dataset. Moreover, the multiclass model achieved an accuracy of 67%.

Enhancing Knee Osteoarthritis severity level classification using diffusion augmented images

This research paper explores the classification of knee osteoarthritis (OA) severity levels using advanced computer vision models and augmentation techniques. The study investigates the effectiveness of data preprocessing, including Contrast-Limited Adaptive Histogram Equalization (CLAHE), and data augmentation using diffusion models. Three experiments were conducted: training models on the original dataset, training models on the preprocessed dataset, and training models on the augmented dataset. The results show that data preprocessing and augmentation significantly improve the accuracy of the models. The EfficientNetB3 model achieved the highest accuracy of 84\% on the augmented dataset. Additionally, attention visualization techniques, such as Grad-CAM, are utilized to provide detailed attention maps, enhancing the understanding and trustworthiness of the models. These findings highlight the potential of combining advanced models with augmented data and attention visualization for accurate knee OA severity classification.