Research and Development of Arti cial Intelligence in Extraction and Identi cation of Spoken Language Biomarkers for Screening and Monitoring of Neurocognitive Disorders 以人工智能提取和鑑定口語生物標誌物供神經 認知障礙篩查和監測的研究及技術開發 T45-407/19-N Project Coordinator Professor Helen MENG The Chinese University of Hong Kong 項目統籌人 蒙美玲教授 香港中文大學 Short Biography of Project Coordinator Professor Helen Meng is Patrick Huen Wing Ming Chair Professor of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She joined CUHK in 1998 and has served as Department Chairperson, as well as Associate Dean of Research for CUHK’s Faculty of Engineering. Professor Meng has been leading various joint partnerships, including with Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA), MIT, Tsinghua University and Dr. Stanley Ho Medical Development Foundation. Her collaboration with MSRA led to CUHK’s first engineering laboratory to achieve the national status of a Ministry of Education Key Laboratory. In 2019, her interdisciplinary team was awarded the first AI project under the HKSARG RGC Theme-based Research Scheme, which aims to develop AI technologies for screening dementia. In 2020, she led the establishment of CUHK’s InnoCentre on AI, named Centre for Perceptual and Interactive Intelligence, and serves as Director. Since 2019, Helen has been serving as head of curriculum development of the CUHK-HKJC AI4Future Project, leading the creation of Hong Kong’s first pre-tertiary AI curriculum, with a focus on AI ethics. The AI4Future Project was recognized with the Gold Award of the Hong Kong ICT Awards Smart People Award 2021. The curriculum will be taught in all local secondary schools starting in 2024. Helen and her team have won many other awards, including the Gold and Silver medals of 49th International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva 2024, 2023 and 2024 INTERSPEECH Best Student Paper Award, the US National Academy of Medicine's Healthy Longevity Global Grand Challenge 2024, the First Prize of the international DialDoc@ACL 2022 Challenge, Hong Kong’s SciTech Challenge 2021 Open Category Championship, 2019 IEEE SPS Leo Beranek Meritorious Service Award for service and leadership, etc. Helen has also served as the elected Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, a top journal in her field. Helen is a Fellow of the IEEE, ISCA, HKIE and HKCS. 項目統籌人簡介 蒙教授是香港中文大學永明系統工程與工程管理學系講座 教 授，她於 1998 年加入香港中文大學，並曾擔任系主任以及香 港中文大學工程學院的研究副院長。蒙教授致力各種聯合合作， 其中包括與微軟亞洲研究院（MSRA）、美國麻省理工學院、清 華大學及何鴻燊博士醫療拓展基金會的聯合實驗室以及研究中 心。她與 MSRA 合作成立的實驗室其後升格為中國教育部重點 實驗室，成為香港中大首例。 2019 年，她領導的的跨學科團隊成功獲得香港特區政府研究資 助局主題研究計劃下的首個人工智慧項目，開發認知障礙症篩 檢的 AI 技術。2020 年，她創辦了香港中文大學的人工智慧創 新中心－博智感知互動研究中心有限公司，並擔任總監一職。 自 2019 年以來，蒙教授擔任中大賽馬會「智」為未來計畫的 課程發展負責人，主導開發香港首個以人工智慧倫理為重點的 大學前人工智慧課程。此「AI4Future」計畫在 2021 年榮獲香 港資訊及通訊科技獎「智慧市民獎」金獎。該課程於 2024 年 起在全港中學推行。蒙教授及她的研究團隊獲獎甚多，近期獎 項包括第 49 屆 2024 年日內瓦國際發明展金獎及銀獎、2023 及 2024 INTERSPEECH 最佳學生論文獎、2024 年美國國家醫 學院健康長壽全球大挑戰獎項、國際比賽 DiaDoc@ACL 2022 第 一 獎、香 港 SciTech Challenge 2021 公 開 組 冠 軍 、2019 年 IEEE SPS Leo L. Beranek 功勳服務獎等。蒙教授曾被選為 IEEE SPS Transaction on Audio，Speech and Language Processing（被譽為是該領域最負盛名的期刊）的總主編，同時 也是 IEEE、ISCA、HKIE 和 HKCS 的會士。 項目概要 設計並收集 CU-MARVEL 語料庫，涵蓋不同認知功能水準的長 者語音資料。 設計香港購物對話任務，用於具有生態效度的有效認知評估。 透過 fMRI 結合創新的觀影任務，建立了神經活動、認知缺陷與 語言的關聯性。 建立使用先進語言技術的 NCD 篩選自動化流程。 開發結合分析性和生成性 AI 的 NCD 篩查應用程式。 於社區環境中試行 NCD 篩查應用程式。 Project Summary Designed and collected CU-MARVEL, a speech corpus from older adults with varying levels of cognitive functioning Developed the Hong Kong Grocery Shopping Dialog Task for effective and ecologically valid cognitive assessment Linked neural activity, cognitive deficits, and speech via fMRI using a novel movie-watching task Built an automated pipeline for NCD screening using advanced spoken language technologies Developed NCD screening apps with analytical and generative AI Piloting NCD screening apps in community setting 24 THEME 主題 4 | Advancing Emerging Research and Innovations Important to Hong Kong 促進對香港起重要作用的新興研究及創新項目 Participating Institutions The Hong Kong Polytechnic University The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 參與院校 香港理工大學 香港科技大學
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