Logo do repositório
 
Publicação

Hierarchical classification and system combination for automatically identifying physiological and neuromuscular laryngeal pathologies

dc.contributor.authorCordeiro, Hugo
dc.contributor.authorFonseca, José
dc.contributor.authorGuimarães, Isabel
dc.contributor.authorMeneses, Carlos
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-31T17:21:34Z
dc.date.available2022-03-31T17:21:34Z
dc.date.issued2016-09-08
dc.description.abstractObjectives. Speech signal processing techniques have provided several contributions to pathologic voice identification, in which healthy and unhealthy voice samples are evaluated. A less common approach is to identify laryngeal pathologies, for which the use of a noninvasive method for pathologic voice identification is an important step forward for preliminary diagnosis. In this study, a hierarchical classifier and a combination of systems are used to improve the accuracy of a three-class identification system (healthy, physiological larynx pathologies, and neuromuscular larynx pathologies). Method. Three main subject classes were considered: subjects with physiological larynx pathologies (vocal fold nodules and edemas: 59 samples), subjects with neuromuscular larynx pathologies (unilateral vocal fold paralysis: 59 samples), and healthy subjects (36 samples). The variables used in this study were a speech task (sustained vowel /a/ or continuous reading speech), features with or without perceptual information, and features with or without direct information about formants evaluated using single classifiers.Ahierarchical classification system was designed based on this information. Results. The resulting system combines an analysis of continuous speech by way of the commonly used sustained vowel /a/ to obtain spectral and perceptual speech features. It achieved an accuracy of 84.4%, which represents an improvement of approximately 9% compared with the stand-alone approach. For pathologic voice identification, the accuracy obtained was 98.7%, and the identification accuracy for the two pathology classes was 81.3%. Conclusions. Hierarchical classification and system combination create significant benefits and introduce a modular approach to the classification of larynx pathologies.pt_PT
dc.description.versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionpt_PT
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jvoice.2016.09.003pt_PT
dc.identifier.issn0892-1997
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/39986
dc.language.isoporpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.publisherElsevierpt_PT
dc.subjectHierarchical classificationpt_PT
dc.subjectPathologic voice identificationpt_PT
dc.subjectLarynx pathology identificationpt_PT
dc.subjectContinuouspt_PT
dc.titleHierarchical classification and system combination for automatically identifying physiological and neuromuscular laryngeal pathologiespt_PT
dc.typejournal article
dspace.entity.typePublication
oaire.citation.endPage384.e14pt_PT
oaire.citation.issue3pt_PT
oaire.citation.startPage384.e9pt_PT
oaire.citation.titleJournal of Voicept_PT
oaire.citation.volume31pt_PT
person.familyNameGuimarães
person.givenNameIsabel
person.identifier548796
person.identifier.ciencia-idF014-BFD6-49C2
person.identifier.orcid0000-0001-8524-8731
person.identifier.scopus-author-id24586862700
rcaap.rightsrestrictedAccesspt_PT
rcaap.typearticlept_PT
relation.isAuthorOfPublicationdc9a77a2-eecf-4d30-88fa-4200275eccf5
relation.isAuthorOfPublication.latestForDiscoverydc9a77a2-eecf-4d30-88fa-4200275eccf5

Ficheiros

Principais
A mostrar 1 - 1 de 1
Miniatura indisponível
Nome:
1-s2.0-S089219971630265X-main.pdf
Tamanho:
196.34 KB
Formato:
Adobe Portable Document Format