Computational diagnosis of Parkinson's disease directly from natural speech using machine learning techniques

Proceedings - 2014 IEEE International Conference on Software Science, Technology and Engineering, SWSTE 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 50-53

  Frid, Alex ^a   Hazan, Hananel ^b   Hilu, Dan ^a   Manevitz, Larry ^a   Ramig, Lorraine O ^c   Sapir, Shimon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Machine Learning; Natural Speech Analysis; Parkinsons disease; Support Vector Machine (SVM)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907059369     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SWSTE.2014.17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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