AphasiaBank: A Shared Database for the Study of Aphasic Communication

描述（由申请人提供）：失语症银行是一个多媒体互动的失语症沟通研究共享数据库。这项工作的目标是提高病人为导向的失语症治疗。为了达到这一目标，我们必须巩固经验数据库，支持我们对失语症沟通的理解。我们的七个具体目标是：1。核心方案数据库开发。我们将继续扩大核心数据库，以包括更多的参与者，语言，双语类型和临床类型。2.进一步开发数据库。我们将制定创建数据库的额外标准，这些数据库可以包括测试数据、成像数据和严重失语症患者的数据。3.自动分析。我们将构建工具，用于自动计算对临床诊断敏感的量表和恢复过程的测量。4.传播。我们将通过个人联系、研讨会、手册、期刊出版物和互联网下载来传播数据、工具和方法。我们将制作培训和教学材料。我们将特别重视向为少数民族人口服务的机构传播这些工具。5.跨项目联系。我们将把英语失语症银行数据库链接到痴呆银行、TBI银行、流利银行和AAC银行项目中的新兴数据库。6.证候分类。使用这些新的措施和不断增长的数据库，我们将与联盟成员合作，开发基于症状的患者分类和诊断的新方法。7.定性分析我们将开发方法来检查失语症患者如何通过手势，脚手架和增强沟通设备实现沟通。 公共卫生相关性：在特定时间，美国约有120万失语症患者。每年的治疗费用约为100亿美元。美国国立卫生研究院以患者为导向的失语症研究的首要目标是开发治疗方法，帮助患者改善语言的交际使用。失语症银行的目标是开发标准化的评估方法，以指导开发和评估改善失语症患者语言使用的有效方法。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Aphasia Bank is a shared database of multimedia interactions for the study of communication in aphasia. The goal of this work is the improvement of patient- oriented treatment of aphasia. To reach that goal, we must solidify the empirical database supporting our understanding of communication in aphasia. Our seven specific aims are: 1. Core Protocol database development. We will continue to expand the core database to include additional participants, languages, bilingual types, and clinical types. 2. Additional database development. We will develop additional standards for creating databases that can include test data, imaging data, and data from participants with severe aphasia. 3. Automatic analysis. We will construct tools for automatic computation of scales sensitive to clinical diagnosis and the measurement of recovery processes. 4. Dissemination. We will disseminate the data, tools, and methods through personal contact, workshops, manuals, journal publications, and downloads over the Internet. We will construct materials for training and teaching. We will place particular emphasis on dissemination of these tools to institutions serving minority populations. 5. Cross-project linkage. We will link the English Aphasia Bank database to emerging databases in the Dementia Bank, TBI Bank, Fluency Bank, and AAC Bank projects. 6. Syndrome classification. Using these new measures and the growing database, we will work with consortium members to develop new approaches to syndrome-based patient classification and diagnosis. 7. Qualitative Analysis. We will develop methods for examining how people with aphasia achieve communication through gesture, scaffolding, and augmentative communication devices. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: At a given time, there are approximately 1.2 million people with aphasia in the United States. The annual cost of treatment is roughly $10 billion. The overarching goal of NIH patient-oriented work on aphasia is to develop treatments that can help patients improve their communicative use of language. The goal of Aphasia Bank is the development of standardized evaluation methods to guide the development and evaluation of effective methods for improving language usage in people with aphasia.