Estudo da separação entre voz patológica e normal por meio da avaliação da energia global do sinal de voz / Investigation of discrimination between healthy and pathological voice through the analysis of the global energy of the voice signal

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2007

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Voice analysis is an important tool in the diagnosis of laryngeal disorders. Among distinct signal processing techniques employed for voice analysis, the spectrogram is commonly used, as it allows for a visualization of the variation of the energy of the signal as a function of the both time and frequency. In this context, this study investigates the use of the global energy of the voice signal, estimated through the spectrogram, as a tool for discrimination between signals obtained from healthy and pathological subjects. This research has also exploited the potential use of the global energy of the voice signal to discriminate distinct laryngeal disorders. In total, 94 subjets were involved in this study, from which 46 were dysphonic and 48 normal. The diagnosis of laryngeal disorders was confirmed by means of a videolaryngoscopic examination. Participants were also subjected to a clinical examination of vocal acoustic through the recording of the sustained vowel. The global energy allowed for the discrimination between normal and disphonic voice. Furthermore, this technique could discriminate the voice signal of patients suffering from left vocal fold paralysis from those suffering from other investigated disorders. The results suggest the global energy of the signal as an auxiliary and alternative tool for the diagnosis between normal and dysphonic voice.

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engenharia eletrica espectrograma voz - medição spectrogram global energy análise acústica engenharia biomédica vocal and laryngeal disorders energia global distúrbios vocais e laríngeos acústica - medição acoustic analysis

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