Memorias de investigación
Book chapters:
Estimating Tremor in Vocal Fold Biomechanics for Neurological Disease Characterization
Year:2013

Research Areas
  • Processing and signal analysis

Information
Abstract
Neurological Diseases (ND) are affecting larger segments of aging population every year. Treatment is dependent on expensive accurate and frequent monitoring. It is well known that ND leave correlates in speech and phonation. The present work shows a method to detect alterations in vocal fold tension during phonation. These may appear either as hypertension or as cyclical tremor. Estimations of tremor may be produced by auto-regressive modeling of the vocal fold tension series in sustained phonation. The correlates obtained are a set of cyclicality coefficients, the frequency and the root mean square amplitude of the tremor. Statistical distributions of these correlates obtained from a set of male and female subjects are presented. Results from five study cases of female voice are also given.
International
Si
doi: 10.1109/ICDSP.2013.6622735
Book Edition
1
Book Publishing
IEEE Press
ISBN
978-1-4673-5807-1
Series
Book title
Proc. 18th Int. Conf. on Digital Signal Processing (DSP 2013)
From page
1
To page
6
Participants

Research Group, Departaments and Institutes related
  • Creador: Centro o Instituto I+D+i: Centro de tecnología Biomédica CTB