Phonation quality analysis to evaluate neurological diseases Gómez, Pedro; Rodellar, Victoria; Nieto, Víctor; Mazaira, Luis M.; Muñoz, Cristina; Fernández, Mario; Toribio, Elena Universidad Politécnica de Madrid; Hospital del Henares The monitoring of neurological diseases is of most importance in a world where population aging will demand important resources for health care. Classically Voice Quality Analysis has been focused in detecting and grading the organic pathology in voice. Nevertheless altered phonation due to neurological reasons may be a most valuable report of the progress of neural diseases resulting in voice tremor [1]. These would include some kinds of spasmodic dysphonia, stammering and Parkinson Disease (PD). The possibility of early detection in the first stages of PD may grant a better preventive treatment reducing the progress of the illness [2]. The deepest causes of the pathologies studied are to be found in the neurological paths involved in voice production from the neuromotor linguistic cortex [3], the subthalamic region [4] and through the laryngeal nerve and their associated pathways [5] to the muscles activating the thyro-arytenoid structure, responsible of vocal fold stretching, adduction and abduction. Any alteration in the functionality of these structures will result in temporary or permanent distortions of the biomechanical parameters (viscoelasticity) of the vocal folds. Correlates of these alterations will be found in the pitch, and very long term jitter and shimmer, as the periodicity of these alterations may be of hundreds of milliseconds [6]. The aim of this paper is to give some preliminary results in detecting and grading the neurological disease using biomechanical correlates obtained from the inverse filtering of voice [7]. A database of voice recordings from neurological disease-affected patients is being recorded in Hospital del Henares of Madrid. For the preliminary and explorative character of the present study some specific cases are selected, these being mild and strong spasmodic voice samples from male patients, and spasm-free voice from normophonic subjects to serve as a control. The methodology has been tested in monitoring pre-post treatment of organic pathology, and due to its ubiquitous character can be applied as well to neurological diseases. [1] Pantazis, Y., et al., "A novel method for the extraction of tremor", Proc. of MAVEBA07, Florence University Press 2007, pp. 107-110. [2] Das, R. "A comparison of multiple classification methods for diagnosis of Parkinson disease", Expert Systems with Applications, 2010, 1568-1572. [3] Rauschecker, J. P., Scott, S. K., "Maps and streams in the auditory cortex: nonhuman primates illuminate human speech processing", Nature Neuroscience, 2009, pp. 718-724. [4] Törnqvist, A. L., et al., "Effects of different electrical parameter settings on the intelligibility of speech in patients with Parkinson's Disease treated with subthalamic deep brain stimulation", Mov. Disord., 2004, pp. 416-423. [5] Luschei, E. S., et al., "Discharge characteristics of laryngeal single motor units during phonation in young and older adults and in persons with Parkinson disease", J. Neurophysiol., 1999, pp. 2131-2139. 51
[6] *Tsanas, A., et al., "Accurate telemonitoring of Parkinson's disease progression by non-invasive speech tests", IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng., 2009, pp. 884-893. [7] *Gómez, P., et al., "Glottal Source Biometrical Signature for Voice Pathology Detection", Speech Communication, 2009, pp. 759-781. 52
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