Optimal feature selection for the assessment of vocal fold disorders

Authors:
Hossein Khadivi Heris;Babak Seyed Aghazadeh;Mansour Nikkhah-Bahrami
Affiliations:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada;Department of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA;Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
Venue:
Computers in Biology and Medicine
Year:
2009

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Abstract

Unilateral vocal fold paralysis, vocal fold polyp, and vocal fold nodules are the most common types of neurogenic and organic vocal disorders. This article aims to distinguish these types of vocal diseases into four different classes for the purpose of automatic screening. Firstly, the reconstructed signal at each wavelet packet decomposition sub-band in five levels of decomposition with mother wavelet of (db10) is used to extract the nonlinear features of self-similarity and approximate entropy. Also, wavelet packet coefficients are used to measure energy and Shannon entropy features at different spectral sub-bands. Consequently, to find a discriminant feature vector, three different methods have been applied: Davies-Bouldin (DB) criteria, genetic algorithm (GA) with the fitness functions of support vector machine's (SVM) and k-nearest neighbor's (KNN) recognition rates. Finally, obtained feature vectors have been passed on to SVM and KNN classifiers. The results show that a feature vector of length 12 obtained by the optimization method of GA with the fitness function of SVM's recognition rate fed to SVM classifier achieves the highest classification accuracy of 91%. Furthermore, nonlinear features play an important role in pathological voice classification by participating rate of approximately 67% in the optimal feature vector.