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Biomedicine
Data from University of Oxford provide new insights into biomedicine
June 15th, 2009
"In this paper, we present an assessment of the practical value of existing traditional and nonstandard measures for discriminating healthy people from people with Parkinson's disease (PD) by detecting dysphonia. We introduce a new measure of dysphonia, pitch period entropy (PPE), which is robust to many uncontrollable confounding effects including noisy acoustic environments and normal, healthy variations in voice frequency," researchers in Oxford, the United Kingdom report. "We collected sustained phonations from 31 people, 23 with PD. We then selected ten highly uncorrelated measures, and an exhaustive search of all possible combinations of these measures finds four...
Source: Pain & Central Nervous System Week (2009-06-15)
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