Paper Info
Title
Machine Learning Based Voice Analysis In Spasmodic Dysphonia: An Investigation Of Most Relevant Features From Specific Vocal Tasks
Abstract
Adductor-type spasmodic dysphonia (ASD) is a task-specific speech disorder characterized by a strangled and strained voice. We have previously demonstrated that advanced voice analysis, performed with support vector machine, can objectively quantify voice impairment in dysphonic patients, also evidencing results of voice improvements due to symptomatic treatment with botulinum neurotoxin type-A injections into the vocal cords. Here, we expanded the analysis by means of three different machine learning algorithms (Support Vector Machine, Naive Bayes and Multilayer Percept), on a cohort of 60 ASD patients, some of them also treated with botulinum neurotoxin type A therapy, and 60 age and gender-matched healthy subjects. Our analysis was based on sounds produced by speakers during the emission of /a/ and /e/ sustained vowels and a standardized sentence. As a conclusion, we report the main features with discriminatory capabilities to distinguish untreated vs. treated ASD patients vs. healthy subjects, and a comparison of the three classifiers with respect to their discriminating accuracy.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.5220/0010344601030113
BIOSIGNALS: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 14TH INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES - VOL 4: BIOSIGNALS
Keywords
DocType
Citations 
Adductor-type Spasmodic Dysphonia, Botulinum Neurotoxin, Voice Analysis, Cepstral Analysis, Feature Extraction, Feature Selection, Machine Learning
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Giovanni Costantini111.37
Pietro Di Leo200.68
Francesco Asci311.45
Zakarya Zarezadeh400.68
Luca Marsili500.34
Vito Errico600.34
Antonio Suppa701.35
Giovanni Saggio800.68