Table 1.
Participant stratification and demographic information, as well as onset site, ALSFRS-R score, Human word recognition rate (WRR), and Machine WRR.
| Group | Clinician-rated severity |
n
|
Age (years) M (SD) | Onset site (n) |
ALSFRS-R M (SD) |
M (SD; %) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All | F | M | Sp. | Bul. | Mix. | Un. | Human WRR | Machine WRR | ||||
| ALS & HC | Normal | 23 | 12 | 11 | 62.87 (9.31) | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | 97.82 (2.29) | 83.12 (14.04) |
| HC | Normal | 20 | 11 | 9 | 63.22 (9.37) | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | 98.10 (1.99) | 85.45 (13.46) |
| ALS | Normal | 3 | 1 | 2 | 60.59 (10.55) | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 38.00 (2.83) | 95.96 (3.71) | 67.59 (5.60) |
| ALS | Mild | 11 | 4 | 7 | 58.59 (8.36) | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 25.78 (10.60) | 92.83 (3.41) | 76.40 (10.74) |
| ALS | Moderate | 11 | 3 | 8 | 58.64 (12.12) | 8 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 30.75 (8.75) | 77.13 (17.00) | 48.02 (26.09) |
| ALS | Severe | 14 | 4 | 10 | 56.28 (11.28) | 4 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 33.22 (9.15) | 58.41 (19.62) | 17.70 (12.60) |
| ALS | Profound | 13 | 10 | 3 | 61.61 (8.14) | 5 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 32.25 (9.94) | 18.09 (18.87) | 2.86 (4.94) |
| Overall | 72 | 33 | 39 | 60.01 (9.93) | 25 | 21 | 3 | 3 | 31.00 (9.62) | 71.84 (32.1) | 49.52 (35.81) | |
Note. F = female; M = male; Sp. = spinal; Bul. = bulbar; Mix. = mixed; Un. = unknown; ALS = participants with ALS diagnosis; HC = healthy controls; n/a = data not collected for HC participants.