Dysphonia Measurements Detection Using CQT’s and MFCC’s Methods

Mario Lopez-Rodríguez, Mireya Sarai García-Vázquez, Luis Miguel Zamudio-Fuentes, Alejandro Ramírez-Acosta

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Abstract

Dysphonia is a vocal impediment that appears as a symptom of Parkinson’s disease, and can be used for its diagnosis. Among the important measurements for dysphonia detection are jitter, shimmer, fundamental frequency (F0), Harmonics to noise ratio (HNR) and noise to harmonics ratio (NHR). The frequency space of the speech signal is used to detect these five dysphonia measurements, through this space the acoustic markers jitter, shimmer and F0 are calculated. In this article, an evaluation of the detection of acoustic markers is presented through the mathematical methods of the Constant Q Transform (CQT) and the Mel Frequencies Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC) in speech signals of patients with Parkinson’s disease. The classifier method Support Vector Machine (SVM) is used to detect the Biomarkers. According to the results, the CQT method and MFCC method (57% and 62% precision respectively) which is a promising results for Parkinson’s disease diagnosis by the detection of Dysphonia measurements.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationFuture Trends in Biomedical and Health Informatics and Cybersecurity in Medical Devices - Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics, ICBHI 2019
EditorsKang-Ping Lin, Ratko Magjarevic, Paulo de Carvalho
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages349-355
Number of pages7
ISBN (Print)9783030306359
DOIs
StatePublished - 2020
Externally publishedYes
Event4th International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics, ICBHI 2019 - Taipei, Taiwan, Province of China
Duration: 17 Apr 201920 Apr 2019

Publication series

NameIFMBE Proceedings
Volume74
ISSN (Print)1680-0737
ISSN (Electronic)1433-9277

Conference

Conference4th International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics, ICBHI 2019
Country/TerritoryTaiwan, Province of China
CityTaipei
Period17/04/1920/04/19

Keywords

  • Constant Q Transform
  • Dysphonia measurements
  • Mel Frequencies Cepstral Coefficients
  • Parkinson’s disease
  • Support Vector Machine
  • Voice analysis

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