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ArticleInterspeech2020

Classification of Manifest Huntington Disease using Vowel Distortion Measures.

Amrit Romana, John Bandon, Noelle Carlozzi, Angela Roberts, Emily Mower Provost

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Article in Interspeech, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Amrit RomanaComputer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
John BandonComputer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
Noelle CarlozziPhysical Medicine & Rehabilitation, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
Angela RobertsCommunication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA.
Emily Mower ProvostComputer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
University of Michigan–Ann Arbor · USNorthwestern University · US

Funding

Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research (MCHR)UL1TR000433 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI MASHOUR, GEORGE ALEXANDER · 2012 to 2016
$49.9M
Validation of the HD-HRQOL (Huntington disease quality of life measure)R01NS077946 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI CARLOZZI, NOELLE E. · 2012 to 2016
$3.2M
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR000433NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS077946
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Huntington disease (HD) is a fatal autosomal dominant neurocognitive disorder that causes cognitive disturbances, neuropsychiatric symptoms, and impaired motor abilities (e.g., gait, speech, voice). Due to its progressive nature, HD treatment requires ongoing clinical monitoring of symptoms. Individuals with the Huntingtin gene mutation, which causes HD, may exhibit a range of speech symptoms as they progress from premanifest to manifest HD. Speech-based passive monitoring has the potential to augment clinical information by more continuously tracking manifestation symptoms. Differentiating between premanifest and manifest HD is an important yet under-studied problem, as this distinction marks the need for increased treatment. In this work we present the first demonstration of how changes in speech can be measured to differentiate between premanifest and manifest HD. To do so, we focus on one speech symptom of HD: distorted vowels. We introduce a set of Filtered Vowel Distortion Measures (FVDM) which we extract from read speech. We show that FVDM, coupled with features from existing literature, can differentiate between premanifest and manifest HD with 80% accuracy.

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disordered speechHuntington diseasespeech feature extractionvowel distortion

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PMID33244474
PMCPMC7685306
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