Validating Automatic Diadochokinesis Analysis Methods Across Dysarthria Severity and Syllable Task in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.

Purpose: Oral diadochokinesis (DDK) is a standard dysarthria assessment task. To extract automatic and semi-automatic DDK measurements, numerous DDK analysis algorithms based on acoustic signal processing are available, including amplitude based, spectral based, and hybrid. However, these algorithms...

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Publicado en:Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 65; no. 3; pp. 940 - 954
Autores principales: Tanchip, Chelsea, Guarin, Diego L., McKinlay, Scotia, Barnett, Carolina, Kalra, Sanjay, Genge, Angela, Korngut, Lawrence, Green, Jordan R., Berry, James, Zinman, Lorne, Yadollahi, Azadeh, Abrahao, Agessandro, Yunusova, Yana
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Publicado: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Mar2022
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          Tanchip, Chelsea
          Guarin, Diego L.
          McKinlay, Scotia
          Barnett, Carolina
          Kalra, Sanjay
          Genge, Angela
          Korngut, Lawrence
          Green, Jordan R.
          Berry, James
          Zinman, Lorne
          Yadollahi, Azadeh
          Abrahao, Agessandro
          Yunusova, Yana
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          Department of Speech-Language Pathology, Rehabilitation Sciences Institute, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
          Department of Biomedical Engineering, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne.
          Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto and University Health Network, Ontario, Canada.
          Neuroscience and Mental Health Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
          Division of Neurology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
          Clinical Research Unit, Montreal Neurological Institute & Hospital, and Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University, Québec, Canada.
          Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
          Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, MGH Institute of Health Professions, Boston, MA.
          Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
          Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
          Hurvitz Brain Sciences Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
          KITE, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, University Health Network, Ontario, Canada mInstitute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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        Task performance
        Dysarthria
        Severity of illness index
        Speech perception
        Intelligibility of speech
        Impedance audiometry
        Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
        Automation
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          Task performance
          Dysarthria
          Severity of illness index
          Speech perception
          Intelligibility of speech
          Impedance audiometry
          Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
          Automation
      ab: Purpose: Oral diadochokinesis (DDK) is a standard dysarthria assessment task. To extract automatic and semi-automatic DDK measurements, numerous DDK analysis algorithms based on acoustic signal processing are available, including amplitude based, spectral based, and hybrid. However, these algorithms have been predominantly validated in individuals with no perceptible to mild dysarthria. The behavior of these algorithms across dysarthria severity is largely unknown. Likewise, these algorithms have not been tested equally for various syllable types. The goal of this study was to evaluate the performance of five common DDK algorithms as a function of dysarthria severity, considering syllable types. Method: We analyzed 282 DDK recordings of /ba/, /pa/, and /ta/ from 145 participants with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Recordings were stratified into mild, moderate, or severe dysarthria groups based on individual performance on the Speech Intelligibility Test. Analysis included manual and automatic estimation of the number of syllables, DDK rate, and cycle-to-cycle temporal variability (cTV). Validation metrics included Bland–Altman mixed-effects limits of agreement between manual and automatic syllable counts, recall and precision between manual and automatic syllable boundary detection, and Kendall’s tau-b correlations between manual and algorithm-detected DDK rate and cTV. Results: The amplitude-based algorithm (absolute energy) yielded the strongest correlations with manual analysis across all severity groups for DDK rate (τ = 0.7–0.84) and cTV (τ = 0.7–0.84) and the narrowest limits of agreement (−5.92 to 7.12 syllable difference). Moreover, this algorithm also provided the highest mean recall and precision across severity groups for /ba/ and /pa/, but with significantly more variation for/ta/. Conclusions: Algorithms based on signal energy analysis appeared to be the most robust for DDK analysis across dysarthria severity and syllable types; however, it remains prone to error against severe dysarthria and alveolar syllable context. Further development is needed to address this important issue.
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