Effects of cerebral infarction on cognitive and speech performance.

OBJECTIVE

The present study sought to identify the cognitive features and speech features that might distinguish cerebral infarction patients by using artificial intelligence.

METHODS

A total of 117 patients were divided into the lacunar group, non-lacunar cerebral infarction group, and control group from Anhui No.2 Provincial People's Hospital. The cognitive features were created from the Chinese version of Montreal Cognitive Assessment Basic (MoCA-B) and the speech features were created from the cookie theft picture description task.

RESULTS

Cerebral infarction patients, including lacunar and non-lacunar groups, had lower cognitive scores than the control group, with the non-lacunar group performing more poorly. The fluency task showed significant differences among the three groups, with the non-lacunar cerebral infarction group differing most from the control group. Non-lacunar and lacunar cerebral infarction groups performed worse than the control group in memory tasks, with the non-lacunar infarction group performing more poorly. Artificial intelligence technology was used to analyze speech data from patients completing tasks, revealing differences in acoustic features between the non-lacunar and lacunar cerebral infarction groups.

CONCLUSION

Cognitive performance is a important distinguishing features of cerebral infarction. Some acoustic features may play an important role in distinguishing lacunar infarction from non-lacunar infarction.