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Area of Science:

  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Speech Science
  • Computational Linguistics

Background:

  • Voice pathologies affect millions globally, necessitating accurate diagnostic tools.
  • Current diagnostic methods can be subjective and time-consuming.
  • Automated voice analysis offers a promising avenue for objective and efficient detection.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the effectiveness of various speech signal analysis techniques for voice pathology detection.
  • To identify optimal acoustic features for distinguishing between healthy and pathological voices.
  • To assess the performance of machine learning classifiers in voice pathology diagnosis.

Main Methods:

  • Extraction of 28 acoustic parameters from sustained vowels (/a/, /i/, /u/) across different pitches.
  • Application of principal component analysis (PCA) for linear feature reduction.
  • Utilizing kernel principal components for non-linear data transformation.
  • Classification using k-means clustering and random forest algorithms.

Main Results:

  • Principal component analysis effectively reduced feature dimensionality while retaining key information.
  • Random forest classification achieved up to 100% accuracy in differentiating healthy from pathological voices in both male and female recordings.
  • Feature selection significantly impacted classification performance, highlighting the importance of appropriate feature extraction.

Conclusions:

  • Speech signal analysis, particularly with PCA and random forest, is a powerful tool for voice pathology detection.
  • The developed methods show potential for integration into automated diagnostic systems.
  • Accurate feature selection is crucial for maximizing the performance of voice pathology detection systems.