Diagnosis of Parkinson’s Disease using Acoustic Analysis of Voice

Chaitanya Gupte¹ , Shruti Gadewar²

¹ Department of ETE, SIES Graduate School of Technology, Nerul, India.
² Department of ETE, SIES Graduate School of Technology, Nerul, India.

Section:Research Paper, Product Type: Journal
Vol.5 , Issue.3 , pp.14-18, Jun-2017

Online published on Jun 30, 2017

Copyright © Chaitanya Gupte, Shruti Gadewar . This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
 

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Abstract :
Acoustic analysis of voice is one of the cost effective method for detecting Parkinson disease. It is also a noninvasive, reliable and easy to use method. Also voice deviation from normal one is the earliest indicator of Parkinson. Voice data of sustained phonation has been collected from 8 healthy and 23 Parkinson subjects. The voice database is analyzed using PRAAT Software and 26 acoustic features are extracted. Some of the features being Jitters, Shimmers, Harmonic to Noise Ratio (HNR), Noise to Harmonic Ratio (NHR), Autocorrelation (AC). The values of these parameters show variation among two groups. A row vector is prepared using these parameters and fed to the classifiers. Classifiers such as Artificial Neural Network (ANN), Support Vector Machine (SVM), k-nearest neighbors (kNN), Adaboost, Decision trees and Random Forest have been tested and it was found that SVM is the best which gives the accuracy of 90%. Performances of classifiers are evaluated in terms of accuracy, precision, recall and total execution time.

Key-Words / Index Term :
Parkinson’s disease, PRAAT, Acoustic features, Support Vector Machine, Neural Networks

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