Analysis and Classification of Voice Pathologies using Glottal Signal Parameters with Recurrent Neural Networks and SVM

Leonardo Mendoza, Manoela Kohler, Cristian Muñoz, Evelyn Batista, Marco Pacheco

2019

Abstract

The classification of voice diseases has many applications in health, in diseases treatment, and in the design of new medical equipment for helping doctors in diagnosing pathologies related to the voice. This work uses the parameters of the glottal signal to help the identification of two types of voice disorders related to the pathologies of the vocal folds: nodule and unilateral paralysis. The parameters of the glottal signal are obtained through a known inverse filtering method and they are used as inputs to an Artificial Neural Network, RNN, LSTM, a Support Vector Machine and also to a Hidden Markov Model, to obtain the classification, and to compare the results, of the voice signals into three different groups: speakers with nodule in the vocal folds; speakers with unilateral paralysis of the vocal folds; and speakers with normal voices, that is, without nodule or unilateral paralysis present in the vocal folds. The database is composed of 248 voice recordings (signals of vowels production) containing samples corresponding to the three groups mentioned. In this study a larger database was used for the classification when compared with similar studies, and its classification rate is superior to other studies, reaching 99.2%.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Mendoza L., Kohler M., Muñoz C., Batista E. and Pacheco M. (2019). Analysis and Classification of Voice Pathologies using Glottal Signal Parameters with Recurrent Neural Networks and SVM.In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-758-350-6, pages 19-28. DOI: 10.5220/0007250700190028

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icaart19,
author={Leonardo Mendoza and Manoela Kohler and Cristian Muñoz and Evelyn Batista and Marco Pacheco},
title={Analysis and Classification of Voice Pathologies using Glottal Signal Parameters with Recurrent Neural Networks and SVM},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART,},
year={2019},
pages={19-28},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007250700190028},
isbn={978-989-758-350-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART,
TI - Analysis and Classification of Voice Pathologies using Glottal Signal Parameters with Recurrent Neural Networks and SVM
SN - 978-989-758-350-6
AU - Mendoza L.
AU - Kohler M.
AU - Muñoz C.
AU - Batista E.
AU - Pacheco M.
PY - 2019
SP - 19
EP - 28
DO - 10.5220/0007250700190028