Objective automatic assessment of rehabilitative speech treatment in Parkinson's disease

IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 181-190

  Tsanas, Athanasios ^a   Little, Max A ^b   Fox, Cynthia ^c,d   Ramig, Lorraine O ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision support tool; Lee Silverman voice treatment (LSVT); Parkinson's disease (PD); Speech rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC ASSESSMENT; DECISION SUPPORT TOOLS; LEE SILVERMAN VOICE TREATMENT (LSVT); OVERALL ACCURACIES; PARKINSON'S DISEASE; PROBABILISTIC DECISIONS; ROBUST FEATURE SELECTION; SPEECH REHABILITATION;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES;

SPEECH;

AGED; ALGORITHM; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPLICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARKINSON DISEASE; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH DISORDERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH DISORDERS; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84892569709     PISSN: 15344320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNSRE.2013.2293575     Document Type: Article

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