A novel GMM-based feature reduction for vocal fold pathology diagnosis

Research Journal of Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 2245-2254

  Majidnezhad, Vahid ^a   Kheidorov, Igor ^a  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Gaussian mixture model (GMM); Mel frequency cepstral coefficient (MFCC); Principal component analysis (PCA); Proposed GMM based feature reduction; Vocal fold pathology diagnosis; Wavelet packet decomposition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874743743     PISSN: 20407459     EISSN: 20407467     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.19026/rjaset.5.4779     Document Type: Article

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