Investigating the applicability of vibroacoustic methods for monitoring neurodegenerative diseases

The present study is concerned with determining the usefulness and feasibility of using methods for simultaneous processing and analysis of the speech signal and hand vibration acceleration signal in the context of screening or objective monitoring of the progress of treatment of neurodegenerative diseases. The AGH team has developed an application for a mobile device (smartphone) that uses the device’s built-in microphone and accelerometer to record the sound pressure level waveform and the amplitude value of hand vibration acceleration on three directional components during a patient’s spoken phonetic test.
The research task at hand is to find parameters estimated from the time waveforms of the patients’ speech and hand vibration signals that objectively and statistically validatedly differentiate Parkinson’s disease states.
The research was approved by The Bioethics Committee of the Jagiellonian University (review no. 1072.6120.271.2019 of 21 Nov 2019).

Publications:
Chronowski M., Kłaczyński M., Dec-Ćwiek M., Porębska K., Sawczyńska K., Speech and tremor tester – monitoring of neurodegenerative diseases using smartphone technology, Diagnostyka, 2020, 21, 2, 31-39,
doi: https://doi.org/10.29354/diag/122335

Chronowski M., Kłaczyński M., Dec-Ćwiek M., Porębska K., Parkinson’s disease diagnostics using AI and natural language knowledge transfer, https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2204.12559

Project Manager: dr hab. inż. Maciej Kłaczyński (AGH representative), dr n. med. Małgorzata Dec-Ćwiek (CMUJ representative)

Contact: mklaczyn@agh.edu.pl