Dimensionality reduction of a pathological voice quality assessment system based on gaussian mixture models and short-term cepstral parameters

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1943-1953

  Godino Llorente, Juan Ignacio ^a,b   Gómez Vilda, Pedro ^a,c   Blanco Velasco, Manuel ^a,d  

^a IEEE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cepstral parameters; F Ratio; Fisher's discriminant ratio; Gaussian mixture models; Short term analysis; Voice disorders

Indexed keywords

CEPSTRAL PARAMETERS; F-RATIO; FISHER'S DISCRIMINANT RATIO; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODELS; GAUSSIAN MIXTURES; SHORT-TERM ANALYSIS; VOICE DISORDERS;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DISEASES; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PATHOLOGY;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LARYNX DISORDER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; VOICE; VOICE CHANGE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VOICE DISORDERS; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 33749525148     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2006.871883     Document Type: Article

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