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Multilingual Analysis Of Hypokinetic Dysarthria In Patients With Parkinson’s Disease
Kováč, Daniel
This article deals with the multilingual analysis of hypokinetic dysarthria (HD) in patientswith Parkinson’s disease (PD). The goal is to identify acoustic features that have high discriminationpower and that are independent of the language of a speaker. The speech corpus contains 59 PD patientsand 44 healthy controls (HC) speaking in Czech (cs) and American English (en-US). Based onnon-parametric statistical tests and logistic regression, we observed the best discrimination power hasthe speech index of rhythmicity (extracted from a reading text) and harmonic-to-noise ratio (extractedfrom a sustained vowel). We were able to identify PD with 67% sensitivity and 79% specificity inthe Czech corpus and with 78% sensitivity and 67% specificity in the English one. The performanceof the model was significantly lower when combining both datasets, thus suggesting language playsa significant role during the automatic assessment of HD.
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Assessing movement of articulatory organs based on acoustic analysis of speech
Novotný, Kryštof ; Galáž, Zoltán (referee) ; Mekyska, Jiří (advisor)
Hypokinetic dysarthria is a motor speech disorder often present during Parkinson’s disease. It affects the speech system, including articulatory abilities. There are several speech parameters describing this domain, so it is suggested to deal with their mutual comparison. This work aims to design and describe an algorithm for calculating the parameters of articulation, adapted for the Czech language, and then compare their discriminative power. The acoustic analysis of speech included in it is done via the Praat program and basic machine learning algorithms such as Expectation-Maximization, Kmeans and linear regression are used for the subsequent data processing. The Mann-Whitney U test and representatives of linear, nonlinear and ensemble machine learning models using cross-validation and balanced accuracy are used for evaluation. The results are scripts for automatic assessment of vowel space area, for calculating articulation parameters and for their evaluation. The outputs of the analysis of two different databases (PARCZ and CoBeN) prove that differences in articulation can indeed be observed between normal and dysarthric speech. Based on the mutual comparison of results, it is therefore proposed in the work which parameters and models of machine learning are being appropriate for further dealing with this issue.
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Identification Of Parkinson’S Disease Using Acousticanalysis Of Poem Recitation
Mucha, Ján
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the second most frequent neurodegenerative disorder. It is estimated that 60–90% of PD patients suffer from speech disorder called hypokinetic dysarthria (HD). The goal of this work is to reveal influence of poem recitation on acoustic analysis of speech and propose concept of Parkinson’s disease identification based on this analysis. Classification methods used in this work are Random Forests and Support Vector Machine. The best achieved accuracy of disease identification is 70.66% with 59.25% sensitivity for Random Forests classifier fed mainly with articulation features. These results demonstrate a high potential of research in this area.
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Identification Of Patients At The Risk Of Lewy Body Diseases Based On Acoustic Analysis Of Speech
FernándezMartínez, Andrea
Lewy body diseases (LBDs) is a group of neurodegenerative diseases that consists of Parkinson’s disease and dementia with Lewy bodies, that are generally very crucial to be diagnosed in their prodromal state. In the frame of this study we proposed a multivariate logistic regression model that identifies people in a high risk of LBDs based on their articulatory and prosodic characteristics. More specifically, the model has 80 % specificity and 85 % sensitivity based on quantification of rigidity of tongue/jaw, monoloudness, and inappropriate pausing.
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Differential analysis of multilingual corpus in patients with neurodegenerative diseases
Kováč, Daniel ; Zvončák, Vojtěch (referee) ; Mekyska, Jiří (advisor)
This diploma thesis focuses on the automated diagnosis of hypokinetic dysarthria in the multilingual speech corpus, which is a motor speech disorder that occurs in patients with neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s disease. The automatic speech recognition approach to diagnosis is based on the acoustic analysis of speech and subsequent use of mathematical models. The popularity of this method is on the rise due to its objectivity and the possibility of working simultaneously on different languages. The aim of this work is to find out which acoustic parameters have high discriminative power and are universal for multiple languages. To achieve this, a statistical analysis of parameterized speech tasks and subsequent modelling by machine learning methods was used. The analyses were performed for Czech, American English, Hungarian and all languages together. It was found that only some parameters enable the diagnosis of the hypokinetic disorder and are, at the same time, universal for multiple languages. The relF2SD parameter shows the best results, followed by the NST parameter. When classifying speakers of all the languages together, the model achieves accuracy of 59 % and sensitivity of 72 %.
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Assessment of Parkinson’s Disease Based on Acoustic Analysis of Hypokinetic Dysarthria
Galáž, Zoltán ; Brezany, Peter (referee) ; Sklenář, Jaroslav (referee) ; Mekyska, Jiří (advisor)
Hypokinetická dysartrie (HD) je častým symptomem vyskytujícím se až u 90% pacientů trpících idiopatickou Parkinsonovou nemocí (PN), která výrazně přispívá k nepřirozenosti a nesrozumitelnosti řeči těchto pacientů. Hlavním cílem této disertační práce je prozkoumat možnosti použití kvantitativní paraklinické analýzy HD, s použitím parametrizace řeči, statistického zpracování a strojového učení, za účelem diagnózy a objektivního hodnocení PN. Tato práce dokazuje, že počítačová akustická analýza je schopná dostatečně popsat HD, speciálně tzv. dysprozodii, která se projevuje nedokonalou intonací a nepřirozeným tempem řeči. Navíc také dokazuje, že použití klinicky interpretovatelných akustických parametrů kvantifikujících různé aspekty HD, jako jsou fonace, artikulace a prozodie, může být použito k objektivnímu posouzení závažnosti motorických a nemotorických symptomů vyskytujících se u pacientů s PN. Dále tato práce prezentuje výzkum společných patofyziologických mechanizmů stojících za HD a zárazy v chůzi při PN. Nakonec tato práce dokazuje, že akustická analýza HD může být použita pro odhad progrese zárazů v chůzi v horizontu dvou let.
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Simulation of Noise Emitted by a Single-stage Gearbox
Motl, Daniel ; Hadaš, Zdeněk (referee) ; Lošák, Petr (advisor)
The level of noise and vibration of gearboxes is one of the most important parameters for today´s customers. This thesis deals with mathematical acoustic behavior modelling and its contribution to the gearbox design using finite element method. The process is presented at three computations models. Two of those were validated with experimental measurement. Acoustic analysis were performed with software FFT ACTRAN.
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Application for dysarthria examination using test 3F for Android
Sarker, Joy Tomáš ; Mekyska, Jiří (referee) ; Mucha, Ján (advisor)
This bachelor thesis focuses on diagnosing dysarthria thru a diagnosis apparatus called “Test 3F dysarthria profile“. During an examination with the apparatus the examined person undergoes 45 exercises that are meant to test respiration, phonation, phonetics, and the volubility of certain speech organs. The examiner, a clinical speech therapist, assesses the execution quality of each exercise with a number from 0 to 2. On the grounds of received points from all the exercises the level of dysarthria is diagnosed. The 3F test in this bachelor thesis is implemented as an Android application for Android devices and is supplemented by a partial automation of the examination based on an acoustic analysis of recorded speech of the examinee. The recorded speech is pre-processed by segmentation into 25 ms long frames using Hamming window. From this aforementioned speech recording we can determine speech fundamental frequency, jitter, and shimmer. The main goal and outcome is the creation of a modern mobile application for Android devices which, with the help of the 3F test, will make diagnosing dysarthria easier.
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