Nonperiodic Pathologic Voice Signals Classification Using Mel-Spectrogram and VGGish
摘要
In this work and the literature, voice signals can be classified as periodic (type 1) or either some periodicity (type 2) and chaos (type 3). This work aims to classify signs into types 1, 2 or 3 to be subsequently applied in a classification system for pathological/control signs. The original dataset is composed of 466 type 1 individuals, 900 type 2 individuals, and 84 type 3 individuals classified by an otolaryngologist. 15% of the data was used for testing and the remaining 85% was used for training and validation. A data augmentation technique was applied to balance the data in training set. Therefore, for the test set, 3380 sounds were used, 1020 type 1, 1280 type 2 and 1080 type 3. Of these, 80% were used for training and 20% for validation. The Mel spectrograms of the signals were used in the input of a VGGish to retrain the model in classifying the 3 types of signals. Regarding test accuracy, this network obtained 71.2%.