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Classification of parkinson disease based on patient’s voice signal using machine learning
Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing
  • Imran Ahmed, Riphah International University
  • Sultan Aljahdali, Taif University
  • Muhammad Shakeel Khan, Riphah International University
  • Sanaa Kaddoura, Zayed University
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2022
Abstract

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a nervous system disorder first described as a neurological condition in 1817. It is one of the more prevalent diseases in the elderly, and Alzheimer’s is the second most common neurodegenerative illness. It impacts the patient’s movement. Symptoms start gradually with tremors, stiffness in movement, and speech and voice disorders. Researches proved that 89% of patients with Parkinson’s has speech disorder including uncertain articulation, hoarse and breathy voice and monotone pitch. The cause behind this voice change is the reduction of dopamine due to damage of neurons in the substantia nigra responsible for dopamine production. In this work, Parkinson’s disease is classified with the help of human voice signals. Six different machine learning (ML) algorithms are used in the classification: Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) Classifier, Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGB) Classifier, Logistic Regression Classifier, Random Forest Classifier, K-Nearest Neighbour (KNN) Classifier, and Decision Tree (DT) Classifier. This research aims to classify Parkinson’s disease using human voice signals and extract essential features to reduce the complexity of the dataset. Then, human voice signals are analyzed to check the voice intensity and spectrum for PD patients. Then, machine learning classifiers are applied to classify the PD patients based on the extracted features. The results show that SGD-Classifier has 91% accuracy, XGB-Classifier has 95% accuracy, Logistic Regression has 91% accuracy, Random Forest shows 97% accuracy, KNN shows 95% accuracy, and Decision Tree has 95% accuracy. Hence, Random Forest has the highest accuracy. The disease can be studied more by looking for more characteristics of PD patients to enhance its proper use in the medical field.

Publisher
Computers, Materials and Continua (Tech Science Press)
Keywords
  • Decision tree classifier,
  • KNN-classifier,
  • Logistic regression,
  • Parkinson disease,
  • Random forest,
  • SGD-classifier,
  • XGB-classifier
Scopus ID

85119887721

Creative Commons License
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Indexed in Scopus
Yes
Open Access
Yes
Open Access Type
Hybrid: This publication is openly available in a subscription-based journal/series
Citation Information
Imran Ahmed, Sultan Aljahdali, Muhammad Shakeel Khan and Sanaa Kaddoura. "Classification of parkinson disease based on patient’s voice signal using machine learning" Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing Vol. 32 Iss. 2 (2022) p. 705 - 722 ISSN: <p><a href="https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/publication/issn/1079-8587" target="_blank">1079-8587</a></p>
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/sanaa-kaddoura/10/