TY - GEN
T1 - 'You sound ill, take the day off'
T2 - 39th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2017
AU - Cummins, Nicholas
AU - Schmitt, Maximilian
AU - Amiriparian, Shahin
AU - Krajewski, Jarek
AU - Schuller, Bjorn
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IEEE.
PY - 2017/9/13
Y1 - 2017/9/13
N2 - A combination of passive, non-invasive and nonintrusive smart monitoring technologies is currently transforming healthcare. These technologies will soon be able to provide immediate health related feedback for a range of illnesses and conditions. Such tools would be game changing for serious public health concerns, such as seasonal cold and flu, for which early diagnosis and social isolation play a key role in reducing the spread. In this regard, this paper explores, for the first times, the automated classification of individuals with Upper Respiratory Tract Infections (URTI) using recorded speech samples. Key results presented indicate that our classifiers can achieve similar results to those seen in related health-based detection tasks indicating the promise of using computational paralinguistic analysis for the detection of URTI related illnesses.
AB - A combination of passive, non-invasive and nonintrusive smart monitoring technologies is currently transforming healthcare. These technologies will soon be able to provide immediate health related feedback for a range of illnesses and conditions. Such tools would be game changing for serious public health concerns, such as seasonal cold and flu, for which early diagnosis and social isolation play a key role in reducing the spread. In this regard, this paper explores, for the first times, the automated classification of individuals with Upper Respiratory Tract Infections (URTI) using recorded speech samples. Key results presented indicate that our classifiers can achieve similar results to those seen in related health-based detection tasks indicating the promise of using computational paralinguistic analysis for the detection of URTI related illnesses.
KW - Bag-of-Audio-Words
KW - Classification
KW - Feature Selection
KW - Paralinguistic Analysis
KW - Upper Respiratory Tract Infection
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85032187361&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/EMBC.2017.8037686
DO - 10.1109/EMBC.2017.8037686
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 29060727
AN - SCOPUS:85032187361
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS
SP - 3806
EP - 3809
BT - 2017 39th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 11 July 2017 through 15 July 2017
ER -
