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Hypokinetic dysarthria (HD) and freezing of gait (FOG) are frequent symptoms of Parkinson's disease (PD). The aim of this work is to reveal pathological mechanisms common for HD and FOG, and use acoustic analysis of dysarthric speech to assess the gait difficulties in PD. We used a correlation analysis to investigate a relationship between speech features and FOG evaluated by freezing of gait questionnaire...
Up to 90% of patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) suffer from hypokinetic dysarthria (HD). In this work, we analysed the power of conventional speech features quantifying imprecise articulation, dysprosody, speech dysfluency and speech quality deterioration extracted from a specialized poem recitation task to discriminate dysarthric and healthy speech. For this purpose, 152 speakers (53 healthy...
This paper deals with Parkinson's disease (PD) severity estimation according to the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale: motor subscale (UPDRS III), which quantifies the hallmark symptoms of PD, using an acoustic analysis of speech signals. Experimental dataset comprised 42 speech tasks acquired from 50 PD patients (UPDRS in ranged from 6 to 92). It was divided into subsets: words, sentences,...
This paper deals with an acoustic analysis of hypokinetic dysarthria in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). The analysis is based on parametrization of five basic Czech vowels using conventional features and parameters based on empirical mode decomposition (EMD). Experimental dataset consists of 84 PD patients with different disease progress and 49 healthy controls. From the single-vowel-analysis...
This paper deals with a complex acoustic analysis of phonation in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) with a special focus on estimation of disease progress that is described by 7 different clinical scales (e. g. Unified Parkinson's disease rating scale or Beck depression inventory). The analysis is based on parametrization of 5 Czech vowels pronounced by 84 PD patients. Using classification and...
In this paper, we evaluate the contribution of different handwriting modalities to the diagnosis of Parkinson's disease. We analyse on-surface movement, in-air movement and pressure exerted on the tablet surface. Especially in-air movement and pressure-based features have been rarely taken into account in previous studies. We show that pressure and in-air movement also possess information that is...
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder which impairs motor skills, speech, and other functions such as behavior, mood, and cognitive processes. One of the most typical clinical hallmarks of PD is handwriting deterioration, usually the first manifestation of PD. The aim of this study is twofold: (a) to find a subset of handwriting features suitable for identifying subjects with PD...
One of the most frequent clinical hallmarks of Parkinson's disease (PD) is micrographia. Micrographia in PD is characterized by the decreased letter size and by changes in the kinematic aspects including increased movement time, decreased velocities and accelerations, and increased number of changes in velocity and acceleration. Based on the literature survey we proposed template to acquire handwriting...
Parkinsons disease (PD) is neurodegenerative disorder with very high prevalence rate occurring mainly among elderly. One of the most typical symptoms of PD is deterioration of handwriting that is usually the first manifestation of Parkinsons disease. In this study, a new modality — in-air trajectory during handwriting — is proposed to efficiently diagnose PD. Experimental results showed that analysis...
The paper deals with the methods of non-invasive analysis of neurological disorders, focusing on speech signal processing and processing of handwritten text. The paper describes the whole procedure of the automated analysis of the disorder while the greatest attention is paid to a parameterization. In the case of speech signal analysis, the state-of-the-art features evaluating a presence of hoarseness,...
Patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) usually suffer from hypokinetic dysarthria (HD), which involves impairment of phonation, articulation, prosody, and speech fluency. Our paper deals with parameters that can be used for the evaluation of motor aspects of speech and relevant methods of data acquisition and analysis. A review of specific parameters of HD and methods used for their evaluation may...
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