A new insight into postsurgical objective voice quality evaluation: Application to thyroplastic medialization

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 442-451

  Manfredi, Claudia ^a,c,d   Peretti, Giorgio ^b,e,f,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^c International Speech and Communication Association (ISCA)   (Italy)

^d Italian Biomedical Engineering Group   (Italy)

^e AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OTOLARYNGOLOGY   (United States)

^f European Laryngological Society   (Italy)

^g American Laryngological Association   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic signal analysis; Formants; Fundamental frequency; Noise measurements; Voice quality

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL ANALYSIS; FORMANTS; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCY; NOISE MEASUREMENTS; VOICE QUALITY;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SIGNAL THEORY; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

SURGERY;

ACOUSTICS; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; LARYNGOSCOPY; LARYNX SURGERY; MALE; MEDIALIZATION THYROPLASTY; NOISE; PARAMETER; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RATING SCALE; SPEECH ANALYSIS; STROBOSCOPY; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VOCAL CORD; VOCAL CORD DISORDER; VOICE;

DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; HUMANS; LARYNGOSCOPY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS; VOCAL CORDS; VOICE DISORDERS; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 33344463674     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2005.864495     Document Type: Article

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