Due to the nature of job, unhealthy social habits and voice abuse, people are subjected to the risk of voice problems. It is well known that most of vocal fold pathologies cause changes in the acoustic voice signal. Therefore, the voice signal can be a useful tool to diagnose them. Acoustic voice analysis can be used to characterize the pathological voices. This paper presents the detection of ...

Background Voice problems caused by pathologies in vocal folds are well known. Some types of laryngeal pathologies have certain acoustic characteristics. Objective evaluation helps characterize the voice and voice problems providing supporting evidences, severity of disorders. It helps assess the response to the treatment and measures the outcomes. Objective The objective of the study is to det...

OBJECTIVE To describe a series of cases of vocal fold paralysis years after radiation therapy, including presentation, clinical course, and treatment. STUDY DESIGN Case series with chart review. SETTING Tertiary care center. SUBJECTS AND METHODS A review of 8 years of patient records yielded 10 patients (8 male and 2 female; average age 57 years [range, 29-76 years]) with vocal fold paral...

In this paper, a two-class pattern recognition problem is studied, namely the automatic detection of speech disorders such as vocal fold paralysis and edema by processing the speech signal recorded from patients affected by the aforementioned pathologies as well as speakers unaffected by these pathologies. The data used were extracted from the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary database of dis...

A model of the effective low-strain elastic Young’s modulus multi-layer stacked composites is proposed, which capable to account for an arbitrary inclusion. Geometrical and discretization-based results are validated against measured moduli (from 10 up 40 kPa) on 14 molded silicone specimens embedding a stiff (298 inclusion with variable size, position, stacking. Specimens without represent musc...