Abstract: A system and method for remote monitoring of patient motor functions includes a computing device that uses captured image data depicting a patient's body part and, based on movement information, detects whether a condition may exist that is affecting motor functions. The body part can be a hand that is tracked as the user performs a tapping exercise. The body part can also include the patient's face during speech and also without speech.

Abstract: A virtual agent instructs a responding person to perform specific verbal exercises. Audio and image inputs from the responding person's performance of the exercises are used to identify speech, video, cognitive, and/or respiratory biomarkers, which are then used to evaluate speech motor function and/or neurological health. Contemplated exercises include test aspects of oral motor proficiency, sustained phonation, diadochokinesis, reading speech, spontaneous speech, spirometry, picture description, and emotion elicitation. Metrics from evaluation of the responding person's performance are advantageously produced automatically, and are presented in spreadsheet format.

Abstract: A computer-generated dialog session is customized for a user having a pathology characterized at least in part by a speech pathology. The user's speech is analyzed for spans of speech in which the starts and ends of the spans satisfy predetermined thresholds of time. Customization occurs by altering at least one of the following configurable parameters: (a) a threshold minimum signal strength of speech (dB) to consider as the start of the span of speech; (b) an adjustment factor by which signal strengths of background noise increases between consecutive spans of speech; (c) a threshold between signal strength during the span of speech and signal strength during the span of non-speech; (d) a start speech time threshold; and (e) an end speech time threshold.

Abstract: A virtual agent converses with a patient or other person to assess one or more psychological or other medical conditions of the other person. The virtual agent uses both semantic and affect content from the person to branch the conversation, and to assess a psychological or other condition of the person. The virtual agent can have artificial intelligence functionalities or can utilize a separate artificial intelligence functionality. A communication agent can be utilized to monitor a telecommunication session with the person, and if appropriate, modify relative bandwidth utilization between the audio and image inputs. The virtual agent/artificial intelligence agent can simultaneously assist multiple virtual agents, who are each conversing with a responding person assessing their psychological or other medical condition(s), in parallel. The contemplated virtual agents can be especially useful in assessing disorder severity in multiple neurological and mental disorders.