Steps taken toward smartphone app for automatically detecting Parkinson’s

AIIN, 29/08/2021

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Steps taken toward smartphone app for automatically detecting Parkinson’s

"Researchers have achieved accuracies of 99.4% and 94.3% in two algorithmic methods for monitoring, diagnosing or ruling out Parkinson’s disease going only by individuals’ spoken words.

The team built a set of 126 voice markers (i.e., “features”) touching everything from tone, pitch and loudness to enunciation, pace and pause ratio.

Additionally, they had their best model analyze 25 isolated Spanish-language words pronounced by each study subject (50 Parkinson’s patients and 50 healthy controls).

The study’s lead author is Federica Amato, a PhD candidate in computer engineering at the Polytechnic University of Turin in Italy. Senior author is electronic engineer and computer scientist Juan Rafael Orozco-Arroyave, PhD, of the University of Antioquia in Medellín, Colombia.

In a study posted in Health Information Science and Systems, the team explains..." Lire la suite