Disease Delineation for Multiple Sclerosis, Friedreich Ataxia, and Healthy Controls Using Supervised Machine Learning on Speech Acoustics

• Main Authors: Benjamin G. Schultz (Author), Zaher Joukhadar (Author), Usha Nattala (Author), Maria del Mar Quiroga (Author), Gustavo Noffs (Author), Sandra Rojas (Author), Hannah Reece (Author), Anneke Van Der Walt (Author), Adam P. Vogel (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: IEEE, 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Neurodegenerative disease often affects speech. Speech acoustics can be used as objective clinical markers of pathology. Previous investigations of pathological speech have primarily compared controls with one specific condition and excluded comorbidities. We broaden the utility of speech markers by...