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Recent studies have shown that the early detection of neurodegenerative diseases (such as Parkinson) can significantly improve the effectiveness of treatments that increase quality of life, reducing the costs associated with the disease. In this paper, the proposed methodology consists in detecting early signs of Parkinson’s disease through speech, with the presence of background noise. The approach uses machine learning algorithms and signal processing techniques to correctly distinguish between healthy controls and Parkinson’s disease patients. In order to detect early signs of the disease, a database with patients at different stages of the Parkinson’s disease is used. The learning algorithms were optimized for generalization and accuracy. An analysis of the results obtained from the proposed methodology show potential uses of machine learning algorithms in biomedical applications to detect early signs of Parkinson’s disease.
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Braga, D., Madureira, A.M., Coelho, L., Abraham, A. (2018). Neurodegenerative Diseases Detection Through Voice Analysis. In: Abraham, A., Muhuri, P., Muda, A., Gandhi, N. (eds) Hybrid Intelligent Systems. HIS 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 734. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76351-4_22
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