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Knowl Based Syst 2022 Jul 28:109539. Epub 2022 Jul 28.

Department of Electronic Engineering, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy.

Alongside the currently used nasal swab testing, the COVID-19 pandemic situation would gain noticeable advantages from low-cost tests that are available at any-time, anywhere, at a large-scale, and with real time answers. A novel approach for COVID-19 assessment is adopted here, discriminating negative subjects versus positive or recovered subjects. The scope is to identify potential discriminating features, highlight mid and short-term effects of COVID on the voice and compare two custom algorithms. Read More

Brain Sci 2022 Jun 26;12(7). Epub 2022 Jun 26.

Department of Neurology, Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou 310052, China.

Tic disorders (TDs) are a series of childhood neuropsychiatric disorders characterized by involuntary motor and/or vocal tics and commonly comorbid with several other psychopathological and/or behavioral disorders (e.g., attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder), which indeed aggravate clinical symptoms and complicate diagnosis and treatment. Read More

Front Digit Health 2022 7;4:789980. Epub 2022 Jul 7.

GLAM-Group on Language, Audio, and Music, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.

Several machine learning-based COVID-19 classifiers exploiting vocal biomarkers of COVID-19 has been proposed recently as digital mass testing methods. Although these classifiers have shown strong performances on the datasets on which they are trained, their methodological adaptation to new datasets with different modalities has not been explored. We report on cross-running the modified version of recent COVID-19 Identification ResNet (CIdeR) on the two Interspeech 2021 COVID-19 diagnosis from cough and speech audio challenges: ComParE and DiCOVA. Read More

BMC Geriatr 2022 07 1;22(1):549. Epub 2022 Jul 1.

Department of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University Hospital, No. 2, Yude Road, North District, 40447, Taichung, Taiwan.

Background: Frailty is a common issue in the aging population. Given that frailty syndrome is little discussed in the literature on the aging voice, the current study aims to examine the relationship between frailty and vocal biomarkers in older people.

Methods: Participants aged ≥ 60 years visiting geriatric outpatient clinics were recruited. Read More

BMJ Open 2022 06 30;12(6):e059871. Epub 2022 Jun 30.

Department of Circuit Theory, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

Introduction: Early identification of Parkinson's disease (PD) in its prodromal stage has fundamental implications for the future development of neuroprotective therapies. However, no sufficiently accurate biomarkers of prodromal PD are currently available to facilitate early identification. The vocal assessment of patients with isolated rapid eye movement sleep behaviour disorder (iRBD) and PD appears to have intriguing potential as a diagnostic and progressive biomarker of PD and related synucleinopathies. Read More