Characterization of Hypokinetic Dysarthria by a CNN Based on Auditory Receptive Fields

Pedro Gómez-Vilda*, Andrés Gómez-Rodellar, Daniel Palacios-Alonso, Agustín Álvarez-Marquina, Athanasios Tsanas

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract / Description of output

Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is a major neurodegenerative disorder with steadily increasing incidence rates, demanding overgrowing resources from national health systems and imposing considerable burden on caregivers. Cost-effective and efficient turn-around time monitoring methods are required to facilitate regular, longitudinal, accurate clinical assessment and symptom management. Speech has proven to be an effective neuromotor biomarker, capitalizing on the capabilities of contact-free technology. This study aims to evaluate processing speech from people diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) towards characterizing speech articulation kinematics to explore differences between Healthy Controls (HC) and PD participants with Hypokinetic Dysarthria (HD), using Auditory Receptive Fields (ARFs) in the convolutional layers. The proposed proof of concept is based on a CNN described in detail, using an Extreme Learning Machine (ELM) at the output projection layer. This structure is evaluated on speech recordings from 6 PD and 6 HC participants. The performance of the approach is evaluated in terms of correlation and the log-likelihood ratio on the softmax output, showing the efficiency and retrieving properties of the CNN on speech auditory images, towards providing new insights on the pathophysiology of PD speech.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationArtificial Intelligence in Neuroscience
Subtitle of host publicationAffective Analysis and Health Applications - 9th International Work-Conference on the Interplay Between Natural and Artificial Computation, IWINAC 2022, Proceedings
EditorsJosé Manuel Ferrández Vicente, José Ramón Álvarez-Sánchez, Félix de la Paz López, Hojjat Adeli
PublisherSpringer
Pages343-352
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)9783031062414
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 24 May 2022
Event9th International Work-Conference on the Interplay Between Natural and Artificial Computation, IWINAC 2022 - Puerto de la Cruz, Spain
Duration: 31 May 20223 Jun 2022

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume13258 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference9th International Work-Conference on the Interplay Between Natural and Artificial Computation, IWINAC 2022
Country/TerritorySpain
CityPuerto de la Cruz
Period31/05/223/06/22

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

  • Auditory receptive fields
  • Convolutional neural networks
  • Extreme learning machines
  • Hypokinetic dysarthria kinematics
  • Parkinson’s disease

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