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Recent Progress in Voice-Based Sasang Constitutional Medicine : Improving Stability of Diagnosis
Joint Authors
Jang, Jun-Su
Ku, Boncho
Kim, Jong Yeol
Kim, Young-Su
Source
Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Issue
Vol. 2013, Issue 2013 (31 Dec. 2013), pp.1-7, 7 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2013-08-26
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
7
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Sasang constitutional medicine is a unique form of tailored medicine in traditional Korean medicine.
Voice features have been regarded as an important cue to diagnose Sasang constitution types.
Many studies tried to extract quantitative voice features and standardize diagnosis methods; however, they had flaws, such as unstable voice features which vary a lot for the same individual, limited data collected from only few sites, and low diagnosis accuracy.
In this paper, we propose a stable diagnosis model that has a good repeatability for the same individual.
None of the past studies evaluated the repeatability of their diagnosis models.
Although many previous studies used voice features calculated by averaging feature values from all valid frames in monotonic utterance like vowels, we analyse every single feature value from each frame of a sentence voice signal.
Gaussian mixture model is employed to deal with a lot of voice features from each frame.
Total 15 Gaussian models are used to represent voice characteristics for each constitution.
To evaluate repeatability of the proposed diagnosis model, we introduce a test dataset consisting of 10 individuals’ voice recordings with 50 recordings per each individual.
Our result shows that the proposed method has better repeatability than the previous study which used averaged features from vowels and the sentence.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Jang, Jun-Su& Kim, Young-Su& Ku, Boncho& Kim, Jong Yeol. 2013. Recent Progress in Voice-Based Sasang Constitutional Medicine : Improving Stability of Diagnosis. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine،Vol. 2013, no. 2013, pp.1-7.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-508206
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Jang, Jun-Su…[et al.]. Recent Progress in Voice-Based Sasang Constitutional Medicine : Improving Stability of Diagnosis. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine No. 2013 (2013), pp.1-7.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-508206
American Medical Association (AMA)
Jang, Jun-Su& Kim, Young-Su& Ku, Boncho& Kim, Jong Yeol. Recent Progress in Voice-Based Sasang Constitutional Medicine : Improving Stability of Diagnosis. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine. 2013. Vol. 2013, no. 2013, pp.1-7.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-508206
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-508206