Self-evaluation mobile application on mild cognitive impairment based on Mini-Mental State Examination with bilingual support

Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) is a tool that can quickly diagnose if a person suffers from mild cognitive impairment (MCI) through answering questions in different cognitive domains. However, MMSE requires a clinician or psychiatrist to go through the examination with the suspected patient during the evaluation. With the scarce medical resource, suspected patients need to wait a long time for the evaluation. This chapter introduces the design of a mobile application for any suspected patient or elderly in Hong Kong to perform a self-evaluation on MCI anytime and anywhere based on MMSE. It provides the MMSE question set in both English and Cantonese. The advance of artificial intelligence technology enables the integration of verbal and gesture input to our application to ensure the accuracy of the result. Each evaluation result is recorded for users to check whether they are progressing to serious dementia. Feedbacks on eight users (half of age 40 or above) and nursing domain experts were collected and presented.