Timing patterns of speech as potential indicators of near-term suicidal risk

In an effort to find a reliable method that could assist clinicians in risk assessment, information in the speech signal has been found to contain characteristic changes associated with high risk suicidal states. This paper addresses the questions of (1) Does information contain in the speech timing...

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Main Authors: Nik Hashim, Nik Nur Wahidah, Wilkes, Mitchell, Salomon, Ronald
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spelling iium-470652018-05-05T05:12:59Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/47065/ Timing patterns of speech as potential indicators of near-term suicidal risk Nik Hashim, Nik Nur Wahidah Wilkes, Mitchell Salomon, Ronald TA164 Bioengineering In an effort to find a reliable method that could assist clinicians in risk assessment, information in the speech signal has been found to contain characteristic changes associated with high risk suicidal states. This paper addresses the questions of (1) Does information contain in the speech timing-based measures able to discriminate between high risk suicidal (HR) speech from the depressed (DP) speech. (2) How well do speech features, specifically the timing-based measures can predict the ratings from a well-known medical diagnostic tool known as the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAMD). In the first study, using the leave-one-out procedure as a means to measure a classifier performance for all-data classification revealed a single speech timing-based measure to be a significant discriminator with 79% overall correct leave-one-out classification in male (MR) and female (FR) reading speech from Database A. For male patients, using the trained features on Database A and testing on Database B1 successfully demonstrated up to 100% detection of high risk speech in Database B1. In the second study, the acoustic measurements were shown to effectively predict the HAMD score with less than 5% mean absolute error using only combinations from the timing-based measures and eliminating all spectrum-based measures IJMCR 2015 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/47065/1/47065_-_Timing_patterns_of_speech_as_potential_indicators_of_near-term_suicidal_risk.pdf Nik Hashim, Nik Nur Wahidah and Wilkes, Mitchell and Salomon, Ronald (2015) Timing patterns of speech as potential indicators of near-term suicidal risk. International Journal of Multidisciplinary and Current Research, 3. pp. 1104-1116. ISSN 2321-3124 http://ijmcr.com/timing-patterns-of-speech-as-potential-indicators-of-near-term-suicidal-risk/
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Nik Hashim, Nik Nur Wahidah
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Salomon, Ronald
Timing patterns of speech as potential indicators of near-term suicidal risk
description In an effort to find a reliable method that could assist clinicians in risk assessment, information in the speech signal has been found to contain characteristic changes associated with high risk suicidal states. This paper addresses the questions of (1) Does information contain in the speech timing-based measures able to discriminate between high risk suicidal (HR) speech from the depressed (DP) speech. (2) How well do speech features, specifically the timing-based measures can predict the ratings from a well-known medical diagnostic tool known as the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAMD). In the first study, using the leave-one-out procedure as a means to measure a classifier performance for all-data classification revealed a single speech timing-based measure to be a significant discriminator with 79% overall correct leave-one-out classification in male (MR) and female (FR) reading speech from Database A. For male patients, using the trained features on Database A and testing on Database B1 successfully demonstrated up to 100% detection of high risk speech in Database B1. In the second study, the acoustic measurements were shown to effectively predict the HAMD score with less than 5% mean absolute error using only combinations from the timing-based measures and eliminating all spectrum-based measures
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author Nik Hashim, Nik Nur Wahidah
Wilkes, Mitchell
Salomon, Ronald
author_facet Nik Hashim, Nik Nur Wahidah
Wilkes, Mitchell
Salomon, Ronald
author_sort Nik Hashim, Nik Nur Wahidah
title Timing patterns of speech as potential indicators of near-term suicidal risk
title_short Timing patterns of speech as potential indicators of near-term suicidal risk
title_full Timing patterns of speech as potential indicators of near-term suicidal risk
title_fullStr Timing patterns of speech as potential indicators of near-term suicidal risk
title_full_unstemmed Timing patterns of speech as potential indicators of near-term suicidal risk
title_sort timing patterns of speech as potential indicators of near-term suicidal risk
publisher IJMCR
publishDate 2015
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/47065/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/47065/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/47065/1/47065_-_Timing_patterns_of_speech_as_potential_indicators_of_near-term_suicidal_risk.pdf
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