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This work is focused on the design and evaluation of a suboptimal classifier for dysarthria assessment. The classification relied on self organizing maps to discriminate 8 types of dysarthria and a normal group. The classification technique provided an excellent accuracy for assessment and enabled clinicians with a powerful relevance analysis of the input features. This technique also allows a bi-dimensional map that shows the spatial distribution of the data revealing important information about the different dysarthric groups.
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Guerra, E.C., Lovely, D.F. (2003). Suboptimal Classifier for Dysarthria Assessment. In: Sanfeliu, A., Ruiz-Shulcloper, J. (eds) Progress in Pattern Recognition, Speech and Image Analysis. CIARP 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2905. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24586-5_38
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