TY - JOUR PY - 2016// TI - Portable mTBI assessment using temporal and frequency analysis of speech JO - IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics A1 - Daudet, Louis A1 - Yadav, Nikhil A1 - Perez, Matthew A1 - Poellabauer, Christian A1 - Schneider, Sandra A1 - Huebner, Alan SP - 496 EP - 506 VL - 21 IS - 2 N2 - This paper shows that extraction and analysis of various acoustic features from speech using mobile devices can allow the detection of patterns that could be indicative of neurological trauma. This may pave the way for new types of biomarkers and diagnostic tools. Toward this end, we created a mobile application designed to diagnose mild traumatic brain injuries (mTBI) such as concussions. Using this application, data was collected from youth athletes from 47 high schools and colleges in the the Midwestern United States. In this paper, we focus on the design of a methodology to collect speech data, the extraction of various temporal and frequency metrics from that data, and the statistical analysis of these metrics to nd patterns that are indicative of a concussion. Our results suggest a strong correlation between certain temporal and frequency features and the likelihood of a concussion.

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LA - en SN - 2168-2194 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JBHI.2016.2633509 ID - ref1 ER -