Sara Palmieri
Assessment of the vocal status of multiple sclerosis patients - comparison with healthy subjects and evaluation of vocal rehabilitation.
Rel. Alessio Carullo, Alberto Vallan. Politecnico di Torino, Corso di laurea magistrale in Ingegneria Biomedica, 2023
|
Preview |
PDF (Tesi_di_laurea)
- Tesi
Licenza: Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives. Download (5MB) | Preview |
Abstract
This study was carried out in collaboration with the team of speech therapists at the Don Gnocchi Hospital in Milan, analysing the speech performance of 70 patients that suffer from MS: one group was treated with standard therapy, a second group with innovative LSVT-LOUD therapy and a third group was not treated. The recordings provided include 3 repetitions of the vowel /a/ and a free speech (about 1 min), which were provided for each patient before and after therapy. After excluding not valid recordings (saturated or too noisy), two subsets were created for the analysis of the /a/ and the free speech.
Using scripts developed in the Matlab R2020a environment, 9 descriptive statistics of Harmonic-to-Noise Ratio (HNR), intensity, Cepstral Peak Prominence Smoothed (CPPS) and fundamental frequency (fo) were extracted; in the case of the /a/ other 9 amplitude and period stability parameters were obtained
Relatori
Anno Accademico
Tipo di pubblicazione
Numero di pagine
Corso di laurea
Classe di laurea
URI
![]() |
Modifica (riservato agli operatori) |
