Chapter 15 A machine learning approach to voice analysis in Parkinson’s disease diagnosis

Jaya Singh
Ranjana Rajnish
Deepak Kumar Singh

Abstract

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is characterized by a variety of motor and nonmotor symptoms and is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder. In the first stages of PD, a person may have trouble speaking or be unable to use their voice. Biomedical signal processing is now a major area of study. Therefore, diagnostic tools using voice analysis are urgently required since vocal impairment is among the first symptoms of PD. If PD can be diagnosed and treated early on, both the patient and their carers stand to benefit. Additionally, this may aid resource allocation at hospital administration hubs. The ...

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