Thread: Analyzing Speech as a Way to Measure Disease Severity
View Single Post
Old 11-19-2010, 06:35 AM
Conductor71's Avatar
Conductor71 Conductor71 is offline
Senior Member
  
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Michigan
Posts: 1,474
15 yr Member
Conductor71 Conductor71 is offline
Senior Member
Conductor71's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Michigan
Posts: 1,474
15 yr Member
Default Analyzing Speech as a Way to Measure Disease Severity
I am sure that many of you will run across this information today. Apparently, researchers have determined a more scientific means of measuring disease severity. Certain aspects of our speech closely correlate to assessment on the UPDRS, and it seems pretty accurate. From the abstract on Interface

We apply a wide range of known speech signal processing algorithms to a large database (approx. 6000 recordings from 42 PD patients, recruited to a six-month, multi-centre trial) and propose a number of novel, nonlinear signal processing algorithms which reveal pathological characteristics in PD more accurately than existing approaches.

Interested to see the results....

Laura
Conductor71 is offline   Reply With QuoteReply With Quote
"Thanks for this!" says:
lou_lou (11-22-2010), tulip girl (11-19-2010)