[A review on the applications of acoustic analysis in diagnosing disease]
1Department of Biomedical Engineering and Scientific Instrument, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China. pengce@tju.edu.cn
Abstract:
Acoustic analysis is one of the important branches of biometric recognition technology widely used now. The mainly aim of the technology is to recognize the identity of person and judge the content of speech or diagnose the illness automatically according to the features extracted from the speaker's waveforms. All these features are related with the characteristics of speaker's physiological, pathological and psychological action. Speaker recognition study has its 50-year old history already, but acoustic analysis in diagnosing disease has been founded since 1970s. This paper introduces the main concept and research background of this diagnosing system generally and discusses the problems generated during processing. At last the prospect for the applications of acoustic analysis is forecasted.
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