SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING ISOLATED VOWEL SOUNDS FOR ASSESSMENT OF MILD TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY

摘要

A system and method of identifying an impaired brain functionality such as a mild traumatic brain injury using speech analysis. In one example, recordings are taken on a device from athletes participating in a boxing tournament following each match. In one instance, vowel sounds are isolated from the recordings and acoustic features are extracted and used to train several one-class machine learning algorithms in order to predict whether an athlete is concussed.

主权项

1. A method of identifying a mild traumatic brain injury comprising:
using a sound recording device to capture spoken sound recording data from at least one individual at a first point in time to establish a spoken sound baseline; storing the spoken sound baseline in a data repository; capturing a spoken sound from a patient at a second point in time subsequent to the first point in time; comparing the spoken sound to the spoken sound baseline retrieved from the data repository; and using the comparison of the spoken sound to the spoken sound baseline retrieved from the data repository to determine if the patient has experienced a mild traumatic brain injury between the first point in time and second point in time.