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Mobile application for remote therapy of hypokinetic dysarthria
Semanková, Soňa ; Mekyska, Jiří (referee) ; Galáž, Zoltán (advisor)
Hypokinetic dysarthria is a motor speech disorder that is a common symptom of Parkinson’s disease. Currently, the 3F test is used in the Czech Republic for the diagnosis of dysarthria, on the basis of which a therapeutic material for dysarthria therapy has been developed. The material contains a large number of exercises from which the clinical speech therapist selects the appropriate exercises for the patient based on the previous diagnosis. Dysarthria tends to be a fluctuating condition, therefore the therapy plan needs to be adapted over time to the patient’s current condition. This is the reason why there is a need for a therapeutic mobile application that would simplify the work of the speech therapist and make the patient’s therapy more comfortable. The goal of this thesis is to design, implement and test such a therapeutic application and web interface that will be used by speech therapists to manage patients’ treatment plans. The result of the work is a functional multiplatform therapeutic application with an administration web interface. The server side of the application is implemented using Django framework in Python and the user interface is implemented using React Native and React frameworks in TypeScript.
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Time Series Forecasting Using Machine Learning
Elrefaei, Islam ; Galáž, Zoltán (referee) ; Hošek, Jiří (advisor)
The aim of this thesis is to explore the application of various artificial intelligence (AI) techniques for the prediction of time series data, which is prevalent in fields such as finance, economics, and engineering. Accurate time series prediction is essential for effective decision-making and planning. This thesis reviews several traditional and state-of-the-art AI techniques used for time series prediction, including linear regression, ARIMA, support vector regression, random forests, and deep learning. These techniques are applied to different time series datasets, encompassing both univariate and multivariate data. The performance of the predictive models is evaluated using various scalar metrics. The performance of the models was different depending on the type of the dataset. Additionally, this thesis includes the development of a user interface application that allows users to change parameters and forecast new results based on their entries. Furthermore, the thesis discusses the challenges and limitations of using AI techniques for time series prediction and provides suggestions for future research directions.
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Identification of specified segments in the audio signal using machine learning
Pařízek, Radim ; Galáž, Zoltán (referee) ; Zvončák, Vojtěch (advisor)
The bachelor thesis deals with the design of a system for the identification of natural environmental sounds in audio recordings. The datasets and models used for this type of tasks are surveyed and their structure is described. A system for the identification of sounds in one layer and in two layers has been proposed for seven selected labels. The classifier used for this system was created by fine-tuning a transformer model from the Hugging Face platform. The results of two training approaches and one identification system were evaluated.
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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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Game Web Portal - Object-oriented Programming
Hůla, Vladimír ; Galáž, Zoltán (referee) ; Povoda, Lukáš (advisor)
This thesis deals with design and implementation of programming structure of game web portal. The web portal will serve as a communication and information center to simplify coordination among players and allow them to gain new experience. In the thesis are analyzed the needs of players, existing solutions and their drawbacks. The results of this analysis are used to design individual functions of the portal. Implementation of the most important parts of the website has been described, the implementation of these parts were evaluated and some enhancemets were eventually suggested. In the end of this thesis several functionalities were suggested, which could extend the portal in the future.
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Enhancement of image quality for security forces
Varga, Adam ; Galáž, Zoltán (referee) ; Burget, Radim (advisor)
This bachelor thesis deals with image quality enhancement for security forces. Image quality enhancement in this case means increasing the resolution of image data by using super-resolution techniques using models of deep convolutional neural networks. The thesis in its theoretical part describes the principles of the operation of this technique and in its practical part is presented the work with selected state-of-the-art models in the area of super-resolution.
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Diagnosis and progress monitoring of Parkinson’s disease using dysgraphia analysis methods
Markovič, Michal ; Galáž, Zoltán (referee) ; Mekyska, Jiří (advisor)
Parkinson’s disease causes among other symptoms also writing disorder. Parkinson's dysgrafia is disease the writing of parkinsonics. The aim of the work is to show the importance of examinig the parametres of Parkinson's dysgrafia and to find writing parametres, which could distinguish healthy subjects from the pacient and also it could monitoring progress of pakinson's disease. Some of the parametrs showed marked differences and therefore could distinguish healthy people from those with Parkinson’s disease.
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Degree of Parkinson's disease estimation based on acoustic analysis of speech
Ustohalová, Iveta ; Kiska, Tomáš (referee) ; Galáž, Zoltán (advisor)
The diploma thesis deals with the non-invasive analysis of progression of Parkinson´s disease using the acoustic analysis of speach. Hypokinetic dysarthria in connection with Parkinson´s disease as well as speech parameters are described in this work. Speech parameters are sorted according to the speech component they affect. The work uses the phonation of vowels "a" speech task as the most commonly used speech task in the field of pathological speech processing, because of its resistance to demographic and linguistic characteristics of the speakers. Based on obtained knowledge, in MATLAB development enviroment were created systém for UPDRS III scale estimation. The UPDRS III scale is based on subjective diagnosis given by the doctor. At first, one individual parameter is used for the UPDRS III scale value estimation. Then the feature selection using SFFS algorithm is applied to gain feature combination with minimal estimation errror. Attention i salso paid to correlation between individual symptoms and UPDSR III scale.
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Research of modern articulation features for the analysis of hypokinetic dysarthria
Vrba, Filip ; Zvončák, Vojtěch (referee) ; Galáž, Zoltán (advisor)
This thesis deals with hypokinetic dysarthria, as a disorder of motor speech, which occurs in approximately 70% of patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD). Two newly designed speech parameters for quantification of articulation within HD are analysed in this thesis. This parameters were validated on recording of both healthy and PD speakers. The theoretical part describes conventional and used methods of speech signal processing, parameterization and statistical analysis. In the part of the system implementation is described practical design of new parameters and also methods of their statistical evaluation by correlation analysis and machine learning. The aim of this work is to design new speech parameters for HD diagnostics. The proposed system was implemented in MATLAB software environment.
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Objectification of the Test 3F - dysarthric profile based on acoustic analysis
Bezůšek, Marek ; Galáž, Zoltán (referee) ; Mekyska, Jiří (advisor)
Test 3F is used to diagnose the extent of motor speech disorder – dysarthria for czech speakers. The evaluation of dysarthric speech is distorted by subjective assessment. The motivation behind this thesis is that there are not many automatic and objective analysis tools that can be used to evaluate phonation, articulation, prosody and respiration of speech disorder. The aim of this diploma thesis is to identify, implement and test acoustic features of speech that could be used to objectify and automate the evaluation. These features should be easily interpretable by the clinician. It is assumed that the evaluation could be more precise because of the detailed analysis that acoustic features provide. The performance of these features was tested on database of 151 czech speakers that consists of 51 healthy speakers and 100 patients. Statistical analysis and methods of machine learning were used to identify the correlation between features and subjective assesment. 27 of total 30 speech tasks of Test 3F were identified as suitable for automatic evaluation. Within the scope of this thesis only 10 tasks of Test 3F were tested because only a limited part of the database could be preprocessed. The result of statistical analysis is 14 features that were most useful for the test evaluation. The most significant features are: MET (respiration), relF0SD (intonation), relSEOVR (voice intensity – prosody). The lowest prediction error of the machine learning regression models was 7.14 %. The conclusion is that the evaluation of most of the tasks of Test 3F can be automated. The results of analysis of 10 tasks shows that the most significant factor in dysarthria evaluation is limited expiration, monotone voice and low variabilty of speech intensity.
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