Abstract
Patients suffering from Parkinson's disease suffer from voice impairment. In this study, we introduce models to classify normal and Parkinson's patients using their speech. We used an AST (audio spectrogram transformer), a transformer-based speech classification model that has recently outperformed CNN-based models in many fields, and a CNN-based PSLA (pretraining, sampling, labeling, and aggregation), a high-performance model in the existing speech classification field, for the study. This study compares and analyzes the models from both quantitative and qualitative perspectives. First, qualitatively, PSLA outperformed AST by more than 4% in accuracy, and the AUC was also higher, with 94.16% for AST and 97.43% for PSLA. Furthermore, we qualitatively evaluated the ability of the models to capture the acoustic features of Parkinson's through various CAM (class activation map)-based XAI (eXplainable AI) models such as GradCAM and EigenCAM. Based on PSLA, we found that the model focuses well on the muffled frequency band of Parkinson's speech, and the heatmap analysis of false positives and false negatives shows that the speech features are also visually represented when the model actually makes incorrect predictions. The contribution of this paper is that we not only found a suitable model for diagnosing Parkinson's through speech using two different types of models but also validated the predictions of the model in practice.
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