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Record Nr.

UNINA9910774883703321

Titolo

Models and analysis of vocal emissions for biomedical applications : 5th International Workshop: December 13-15, 2007, Firenze, Italy / / edited by Claudia Manfredi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Firenze : , : Firenze University Press, , 2007

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (252 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Atti ; ; 33

Disciplina

610.28

Soggetti

Biomedical engineering

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

The effectiveness of ten different feature sets in classification of voice recordings of the sustained phonation of the vowel sound /a/ into a healthy and pathological classes is investigated as well as a non approach to building a sequential committee of support vector machines (SVM) for the classifications is proposed. The optimal values of hyperparameters of the committee and the feature sets providing the best performance are found during the genetic search. In the experimental investigations performed using 444 voice recordings of the sustained phonation of the vowel sound /a/ coming from 148 subjects, three recordings from each subject, the correct classification rate of over 92 % was obtained. The classification accuracy has been compared with the accuracy obtained from four human experts.