Mobile voice health monitoring using a wearable accelerometer sensor and a smartphone platform

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 59, Issue 12 PART2, 2012, Pages 3090-3096

  Mehta, Daryush D ^a,b,c,d   Zañartu, Matías ^e   Feng, Shengran W ^a,f   Cheyne, Harold A Ii ^g   Hillman, Robert E ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^e DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Chile)

^f MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^g Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Accelerometer sensor; vocal hyperfunction; voice production model; voice use; wearable voice sensor

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETER SENSOR; CLINICAL STUDY; CLINICAL TOOLS; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; HEALTH MONITORING; HIGH BANDWIDTH; HYPER-FUNCTION; PROTOTYPE DEVICES; SENSOR CALIBRATION; SOUND PRESSURE LEVEL; USER FRIENDLY INTERFACE; VOCAL BEHAVIOR; VOICE PRODUCTION;

SENSORS; SIGNAL ENCODING;

SMARTPHONES;

ACCELEROMETER; ACCELEROMETER SENSOR; AIRFLOW; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MOBILE PHONE; MOBILE VOICE HEALTH MONITORING; PERSONAL MONITORING; PILOT STUDY; SENSOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOUND PRESSURE; VOICE; ADULT; ALARM MONITORING; ALGORITHM; AUDIO RECORDING; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DYSPHONIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT; MALE; MICROPHONE; MODEL; MONITOR; MONITORING; NECK; POWER SPECTRUM; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SKIN; SPEECH; VOICE ANALYSIS;

ACCELEROMETRY; ALGORITHMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CELLULAR PHONE; HUMANS; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; PHONATION; PILOT PROJECTS; PULMONARY VENTILATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TELEMETRY; VOICE; VOICE DISORDERS;

EID: 84868156896     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2012.2207896     Document Type: Article

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