Discriminating Between Patients With Parkinson’s and Neurological Diseases Using Cepstral Analysis

In this paper, we wanted to discriminate between two groups of patients (patients who suffer from Parkinson's disease and patients who suffer from other neurological disorders). We collected a variety of voice samples from 50 subjects using different recording devices in different conditions. Subsequently, we analyzed and extracted features from these samples using three different Cepstral techniques; Mel frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCC), perceptual linear prediction (PLP), and ReAlitive SpecTrAl PLP (RASTA-PLP). For classification we used leave one subject out validation scheme along with five different supervised learning classifiers. The best obtained result was 90% using the first 11 coefficients of the PLP and linear SVM kernels.

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