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Centre Interdisciplinaire
de Recherche et d’Innovation
en Cybersécurité et Société
de Recherche et d’Innovation
en Cybersécurité et Société
1.
Zhu, Y.; Falk, T.
WavRx: A Disease-Agnostic, Generalizable, and Privacy-Preserving Speech Health Diagnostic Model Journal Article
In: IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, vol. 29, no. 9, pp. 6353–6365, 2025, ISSN: 21682194 (ISSN).
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Agnostic, area under the curve, article, artificial neural network, asthma, autoencoder, Benchmarking, breathing, chronic obstructive lung disease, Computer-Assisted, controlled study, convolutional neural network, coronavirus disease 2019, Cross-domain, Databases, Diagnosis, Diagnostic, Diagnostic model, diagnostic test accuracy study, diagnostics, Differential privacy, Dynamics, dysarthria, Electronic health record, embedding, Embeddings, Factual, factual database, Generalizability, Health embedding, Health embeddings, Health monitoring, human, Humans, Machine learning, malignant neoplasm, model, Pathological speech, pathophysiology, physiology, pneumonia, Privacy, Privacy preserving, privacy preserving speech health diagnostic model, privacy-preserving, Privacy-preserving techniques, receiver operating characteristic, short time Fourier transform, Signal processing, speech, speech articulation, speech disorder, Speech Disorders, State of the art, temporal representation encoder, training, waveform
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abstract = {Speech is known to carry health-related attributes, which has emerged as a novel venue for remote and long-term health monitoring. However, existing models are usually tailored for a specific type of disease, and have been shown to lack generalizability across datasets. Furthermore, concerns have been raised recently towards the leakage of speaker identity from health embeddings. To mitigate these limitations, we propose WavRx, a speech health diagnostics model that captures the respiration and articulation related dynamics from a universal speech representation. Our in-domain and cross-domain experiments on six pathological speech datasets demonstrate WavRx as a new state-of-the-art health diagnostic model. Furthermore, we show that the amount of speaker identity entailed in the WavRx health embeddings is significantly reduced without extra guidance during training. An in-depth analysis of the model was performed, thus providing physiological interpretation of its improved generalizability and privacy-preserving ability. © 2013 IEEE.},
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Speech is known to carry health-related attributes, which has emerged as a novel venue for remote and long-term health monitoring. However, existing models are usually tailored for a specific type of disease, and have been shown to lack generalizability across datasets. Furthermore, concerns have been raised recently towards the leakage of speaker identity from health embeddings. To mitigate these limitations, we propose WavRx, a speech health diagnostics model that captures the respiration and articulation related dynamics from a universal speech representation. Our in-domain and cross-domain experiments on six pathological speech datasets demonstrate WavRx as a new state-of-the-art health diagnostic model. Furthermore, we show that the amount of speaker identity entailed in the WavRx health embeddings is significantly reduced without extra guidance during training. An in-depth analysis of the model was performed, thus providing physiological interpretation of its improved generalizability and privacy-preserving ability. © 2013 IEEE.
2.
Nolet, K.; Rouleau, J. -L.; Benbouriche, M.; Emond, F. Carrier; Renaud, P.
How Ego Depletion Affects Sexual Self-Regulation: Is It More Than Resource Depletion? Journal Article
In: Journal of Sex Research, vol. 53, no. 8, pp. 994–1007, 2016, ISSN: 00224499, (Publisher: Routledge).
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: autoregulation, clinical article, excitation, heterosexual male, human, male, model, Plethysmography, self control, sexual arousal
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3.
Nolet, K.; Rouleau, J. -L.; Benbouriche, M.; Emond, F. Carrier; Renaud, P.
How Ego Depletion Affects Sexual Self-Regulation: Is It More Than Resource Depletion? Journal Article
In: Journal of Sex Research, vol. 53, no. 8, pp. 994–1007, 2016, ISSN: 00224499.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: autoregulation, clinical article, excitation, heterosexual male, human, male, model, Plethysmography, self control, sexual arousal
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4.
Renaud, P.; Rouleau, J. L.; Granger, L.; Barsetti, I.; Bouchard, S.
Measuring sexual preferences in virtual reality: A pilot study Journal Article
In: Cyberpsychology and Behavior, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 1–9, 2002, ISSN: 10949313.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: adult, Affect, article, Choice Behavior, female, human, human experiment, Humans, male, man machine interaction, measurement, methodology, model, normal human, Photic Stimulation, Pilot Projects, psychology, Questionnaires, Random Allocation, Self Assessment (Psychology), sex, Sexual Behavior, theory, User-Computer Interface, virtual reality
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5.
Renaud, P.; Rouleau, J. L.; Granger, L.; Barsetti, I.; Bouchard, S.
Measuring sexual preferences in virtual reality: A pilot study Journal Article
In: Cyberpsychology and Behavior, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 1–9, 2002, ISSN: 10949313.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: adult, Affect, article, Choice Behavior, female, human, human experiment, Humans, male, man machine interaction, measurement, methodology, model, normal human, Photic Stimulation, Pilot Projects, psychology, Questionnaires, Random Allocation, Self Assessment (Psychology), sex, Sexual Behavior, theory, User-Computer Interface, virtual reality
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