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Springer Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, p. 144-151

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-38847-7_19

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Feature extraction approach based on fractal dimension for spontaneous speech modelling oriented to alzheimer disease diagnosis

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Abstract

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most prevalent form of progressive degenerative dementia; it has a high socio-economic impact in Western coun-tries. The purpose of our project is to contribute to earlier diagnosis of AD and better estimates of its severity by using automatic analysis performed through new biomarkers extracted from non-invasive intelligent methods. The methods selected in this case are speech biomarkers oriented to Spontaneous Speech. Thus the main goal of the present work is feature search in Spontaneous Speech oriented to pre-clinical evaluation for the definition of test for AD diagnosis. Nowadays our feature set offers some hopeful conclusions but fails to capture the nonlinear dynamics of speech that are present in the speech waveforms. The extra information provided by the nonlinear features could be especially useful when training data is scarce. In this work, the Fractal Dimension (FD) of the observed time series is combined with lineal parameters in the feature vector in order to enhance the performance of the original system.