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Development of modern acoustic features quantifying hypokinetic dysarthria
Kowolowski, Alexander ; Zvončák, Vojtěch (referee) ; Galáž, Zoltán (advisor)
This work deals with designing and testing of new acoustic features for analysis of dysprosodic speech occurring in hypokinetic dysarthria patients. 41 new features for dysprosody quantification (describing melody, loudness, rhythm and pace) are presented and tested in this work. New features can be divided into 7 groups. Inside the groups, features vary by the used statistical values. First four groups are based on absolute differences and cumulative sums of fundamental frequency and short-time energy of the signal. Fifth group contains features based on multiples of this fundamental frequency and short-time energy combined into one global intonation feature. Sixth group contains global time features, which are made of divisions between conventional rhythm and pace features. Last group contains global features for quantification of whole dysprosody, made of divisions between global intonation and global time features. All features were tested on Czech Parkinsonian speech database PARCZ. First, kernel density estimation was made and plotted for all features. Then correlation analysis with medicinal metadata was made, first for all the features, then for global features only. Next classification and regression analysis were made, using classification and regression trees algorithm (CART). This analysis was first made for all the features separately, then for all the data at once and eventually a sequential floating feature selection was made, to find out the best fitting combination of features for the current matter. Even though none of the features emerged as a universal best, there were a few features, that were appearing as one of the best repeatedly and also there was a trend that there was a bigger drop between the best and the second best feature, marking it as a much better feature for the given matter, than the rest of the tested. Results are included in the conclusion together with the discussion.
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Development of modern acoustic features quantifying hypokinetic dysarthria
Kowolowski, Alexander ; Zvončák, Vojtěch (referee) ; Galáž, Zoltán (advisor)
This work deals with designing and testing of new acoustic features for analysis of dysprosodic speech occurring in hypokinetic dysarthria patients. 41 new features for dysprosody quantification (describing melody, loudness, rhythm and pace) are presented and tested in this work. New features can be divided into 7 groups. Inside the groups, features vary by the used statistical values. First four groups are based on absolute differences and cumulative sums of fundamental frequency and short-time energy of the signal. Fifth group contains features based on multiples of this fundamental frequency and short-time energy combined into one global intonation feature. Sixth group contains global time features, which are made of divisions between conventional rhythm and pace features. Last group contains global features for quantification of whole dysprosody, made of divisions between global intonation and global time features. All features were tested on Czech Parkinsonian speech database PARCZ. First, kernel density estimation was made and plotted for all features. Then correlation analysis with medicinal metadata was made, first for all the features, then for global features only. Next classification and regression analysis were made, using classification and regression trees algorithm (CART). This analysis was first made for all the features separately, then for all the data at once and eventually a sequential floating feature selection was made, to find out the best fitting combination of features for the current matter. Even though none of the features emerged as a universal best, there were a few features, that were appearing as one of the best repeatedly and also there was a trend that there was a bigger drop between the best and the second best feature, marking it as a much better feature for the given matter, than the rest of the tested. Results are included in the conclusion together with the discussion.
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Selection of Relevant Rules Within Clinical Decision Support
Kalina, Jan ; Zvárová, Jana
Clinical decision support systems represent important telemedicine tools with the ability to help physicians within the decision process leading to determining diagnosis, therapy or prognosis of patients. We proposed and implemented a prototype of a clinical decision support system, which has the form of an internet classification service. A specific property of this system is a sophisticated statistical component, which allows to handle also a large number of symptoms and signs. It namely optimizes the selection of such symptoms and signs which are the most relevant for determining the diagnosis. The performance of the prototype was verified on an analysis of gene expression data from a cardiovascular genetic study. The paper discusses principles of multivariate statistical thinking and reveals challenges of analyzing high-dimensional data with the number of observed variables (symptoms and signs) largely exceeding the number of observations (patients).
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Inter-company Comparison of Furniture Businesses
Zikmundová, Michaela ; Mikan, Pavel (advisor) ; Eisler, Jan (referee)
The thesis deals with inter-company comparison of selected furniture businesses in the period of 2007-2009. It aims to define the range of companies using the methods of intercompany comparison, especially the simple method of ranking, scoring, standard variable and distance from a fictive object. Furthermore the companies are sorted into the groups by the use of the classification analysis and selected outputs graphically depicted using the spider analysis.
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Mezipodnikové srovnávání
Křižková, Jana ; Vávrová, Hana (advisor) ; Tyll, Ladislav (referee)
Práce se zabývá mezipodnikovým srovnáváním deseti textilek v České republice za časové období 2006-2008. Jsou aplikovány jedno a vícerozměrné metody mezipodnikového srovnávání a určeno pořadí společností dle každé z nich. Dále jsou podniky rožčleněny do skupin s využitím klasifikační analýzy a na závěr jsou data graficky znázorněna ve spidergramu. Diskutovány jsou výhody a nevýhody jednotlivých metod.
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