- Title
- An IoT-based smart healthcare system to detect dysphonia
- Creator
- Ali, Zulfiqar; Imran, Muhammad; Shoaib, Muhammad
- Date
- 2022
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/185797
- Identifier
- vital:16736
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-020-05558-3
- Identifier
- ISBN:0941-0643 (ISSN)
- Abstract
- Smart healthcare systems for the internet of things (IoT) platform are cost-efficient and facilitate continuous remote monitoring of patients to avoid unnecessary hospital visits and long waiting times to see practitioners. Presenting a smart healthcare system for the detection of dysphonia can reduce the suffering and pain of patients by providing an initial evaluation of voice. This preliminary feedback of voice could minimize the burden on ENT specialists by referring only genuine cases to them as well as giving an early alarm of potential voice complications to patients. Any possible delay in the treatment and/or inaccurate diagnosis using the subjective nature of tools may lead to severe circumstances for an individual because some types of dysphonia are life-threatening. Therefore, an accurate and reliable smart healthcare system for IoT platform to detect dysphonia is proposed and implemented in this study. Higher-order directional derivatives are used to analyze the time–frequency spectrum of signals in the proposed system. The computed derivatives provide essential and vital information by analyzing the spectrum along different directions to capture the changes that appeared due to malfunctioning the vocal folds. The proposed system provides 99.1% accuracy, while the sensitivity and specificity are 99.4 and 98.1%, respectively. The experimental results showed that the proposed system could provide better classification accuracy than the traditional non-directional first-order derivatives. Hence, the system can be used as a reliable tool for detecting dysphonia and implemented in edge devices to avoid latency issues and protect privacy, unlike cloud processing. © 2021, Springer-Verlag London Ltd., part of Springer Nature.
- Publisher
- Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
- Relation
- Neural Computing and Applications Vol. 34, no. 14 (2022), p. 11255-11265
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright © 2021, Springer-Verlag London Ltd.
- Rights
- Open Access
- Subject
- 4602 Artificial intelligence; 4603 Computer vision and multimedia computation; 4611 Machine learning; Edge analytics; Higher-order local derivatives; Spectrum analysis; Support vector machine (SVM); Vocal folds disorders
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- Reviewed
- Funder
- The authors extend their appreciation to the Deputyship for Research & Innovation, “Ministry of Education” in Saudi Arabia for funding this research work through the project number IFKSURG-1435-051. The authors thank the Deanship of Scientific Research and RSSU at King Saud University for their technical support.
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