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IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
Aug 6, 2024
Many acoustic features and machine learning models have been studied to build automatic detection systems to distinguish dysarthric speech from healthy speech. These systems can help to improve the reliability of diagnosis. However, speech recorded f...
International journal of language & communication disorders
Mar 24, 2023
BACKGROUND: In the past few years there has been a growing interest in the employment of verbal productions as digital biomarkers, namely objective, quantifiable behavioural data that can be collected and measured by means of digital devices, allowin...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2024
Dysarthria is a very common motor speech symptom in Parkinson's disease impairing normal communications of patients. Detection of dysarthria could assist clinical diagnosis and intervention of Parkinson's disease, provide monitoring approach for trea...
JASA express letters
Jan 1, 2023
Studies have shown deep neural networks (DNN) as a potential tool for classifying dysarthric speakers and controls. However, representations used to train DNNs are largely not clinically interpretable, which limits clinical value. Here, a model with ...
Computers in biology and medicine
Sep 1, 2022
Nowadays, many application scenarios benefit from automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology. Within the field of speech therapy, in some cases ASR is exploited in the treatment of dysarthria with the aim of supporting articulation output. However...
IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
Jan 1, 2022
Assessing the severity level of dysarthria can provide an insight into the patient's improvement, assist pathologists to plan therapy, and aid automatic dysarthric speech recognition systems. In this article, we present a comparative study on the cla...
The New England journal of medicine
Jul 15, 2021
BACKGROUND: Technology to restore the ability to communicate in paralyzed persons who cannot speak has the potential to improve autonomy and quality of life. An approach that decodes words and sentences directly from the cerebral cortical activity of...
Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society
Jul 1, 2021
Recently, we have witnessed Deep Learning methodologies gaining significant attention for severity-based classification of dysarthric speech. Detecting dysarthria, quantifying its severity, are of paramount importance in various real-life application...
IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
Jan 1, 2021
Dysarthria is a disorder that affects an individual's speech intelligibility due to the paralysis of muscles and organs involved in the articulation process. As the condition is often associated with physically debilitating disabilities, not only do ...
CNS neuroscience & therapeutics
Jul 1, 2020
BACKGROUND: Up to 90% of patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) eventually develop the speech and voice disorder referred to as hypokinetic dysarthria (HD). However, the brain morphological changes associated with HD have not been investigated. Moreo...