A Novel Approach for Parkinson’s Disease Detection Based on Voice Classification and Features Selection Techniques

Authors

  • Asmae Ouhmida SSDIA lab, ENSET of Mohammedia, Hassan II University of Casablanca, Mohammedia
  • Abdelhadi Raihani SSDIA lab, ENSET of Mohammedia, Hassan II University of Casablanca, Mohammedia https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6295-274X
  • Bouchaib Cherradi STIE Team, CRMEF Casablanca-Settat, provincial section of El Jadida, 24000, El Jadida https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2016-8682
  • Oumaima Terrada SSDIA lab, ENSET of Mohammedia, Hassan II University of Casablanca, Mohammedia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3991/ijoe.v17i10.24499

Keywords:

Parkinson disease, feature selection, machine learning, acoustic dataset

Abstract


Parkinson’s disease (PD) is one of the most widespread diseases that, primarily, affects the motor system of the neural central system. In fact, PD is characterized by tremors, stiffness of the muscles, imprecise gait movements, and vocal impairment. An accurate diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease is usually based on many neurological, psychological, and physical investigations despite the fact that its main symptoms cannot be easily decorrelated from other diseases. As such, many automatic diagnostic support systems based on Machine Learning approaches have been recently employed to assist the PD patients' assessment. In the current paper, a comparative analysis was performed on machine learning (ML) techniques for PD identification based on voice disorders analysis. These ML methods included the Support Vector Machine (SVM), K-Nearest-Neighbors (KNN), and Decision Tree (DT) algorithms.  In addition, two feature selection techniques; mRMR and ReliefF; are used to further improve the performance of the proposed classifiers. The efficiency of the developed model has been evaluated based on accuracy, sensitivity, specificity and AUC metrics, and it is higher than existing approaches. The simulation results show that the KNN algorithm yielded the best classifier performance in term of accuracy and reached an AUC of 98.26%.

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Published

2021-10-19

How to Cite

Ouhmida, A., Raihani, A., Cherradi, B., & Terrada, O. (2021). A Novel Approach for Parkinson’s Disease Detection Based on Voice Classification and Features Selection Techniques. International Journal of Online and Biomedical Engineering (iJOE), 17(10), pp. 111–130. https://doi.org/10.3991/ijoe.v17i10.24499

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