A hybrid approach to detecting Parkinson's disease using spectrogram and deep learning CNN-LSTM network

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a common illness that affects brain neurons. Medical practitioners and caregivers face challenges in detecting Parkinson's disease promptly, either in its early or late stages. There is an urgent need for non-invasive PD diagnostic technologies because timely diagnosis substantially impacts patient outcomes. This research aims to provide an efficient way of identifying Parkinson's disease by transforming voice inputs into spectrograms using Short Term Fourier Transform and applying deep learning algorithms. The identification of Parkinson's disease can be done by leveraging the deep learning architectures such as Convolutional Neural Networks and Long Short-Term Memory networks. The experiment produced positive findings, with 95.67% accuracy, 97.62% precision, 94.67% recall, and an F1-score of 95.91%. The outcomes indicate that the suggested deep learning method is more successful in PD identification, surpassing the results of traditional classification methods.