Recognition of signs of Parkinson's disease based on the analysis of voice markers and motor activity

Abstract

Objectives. The problem of IT diagnostics of signs of Parkinson's disease is solved by analyzing changes in the voice and slowing down the movement of patients. The urgency of the task is associated with the need for early diagnosis of the disease. A method of complex recognition of Parkinson's disease using machine learning is proposed, based on markers of voice analysis and changes in the patient's movements on known data sets.Methods. The time-frequency function (the wavelet function) and the Meyer kepstral coefficient function, the KNN algorithm (k-Nearest Neighbors, KNN) and the algorithm of a two-layer neural network are used for training and testing on publicly available datasets on speech changes and motion retardation in Parkinson's disease. A Bayesian optimizer is also used to improve the hyperparameters of the KNN algorithm.Results. The KNN algorithm was used for speech recognition of patients, the test accuracy of 94.7% was achieved in the diagnosis of Parkinson's disease by voice change. The Bayesian neural network algorithm was applied to recognize the slowing down of the patients' movements, it gave a test accuracy of 96.2% for the diagnosis of Parkinson's disease.Conclusion. The obtained results of recognition of signs of Parkinson's disease are close to the world level. On the same set of data on speech changes of patients, one of the best indicators of foreign studies is 95.8%. On the same set of data on motion deceleration, one of the best indicators of foreign researchers is 98.8%. The proposed author's technique is intended for use in the subsystem of IT diagnostics of neurological diseases of a Smart city.

Keywords

• parkinson's disease recognition
• machine learning
• knn algorithm
• voice markers
• bayesian neural network
• motion deceleration
• hyperparameters