Breathing site classification via joint mel frequency cepstral coefficients and gammatone frequency cepstral coefficients approach

Abstract

The patients with the nasopharyngeal cancer are required to breath through their mouth after performing the surgery. Hence, it is required to perform the breathing site classification and employs the classification results to indicate whether the patients breath correctly or not. Nevertheless, there is currently no such a medical aided tool in the market. To address this issue, this paper extracts both the mel frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCCs) based features and the gammatone frequency cepstral coefficients (GFCCs) based features as well as employs the random forest as the classifier for performing the breathing site classification. The data lasted for a few minutes acquired from 10 volunteers are employed to demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed method. The computer numerical simulation results show that the average accuracy, the average specificity and the average sensitivity yielded by our proposed method are 95.30±2.00%, 93.27±3.87% and 97.15±1.87%, respectively. Although this paper proposes a method based on the fusion of two types of the acoustic features for classifying different breathing sites, the computer numerical simulation results show that our proposed method outperforms the common respiration or speech processing based methods. Besides, our proposed method is also compared to a series of relevant methods. It is found that our proposed method achieves the highest classification results at the majority signal to noise ratios among the state of the arts methods.