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Phonologically-based biomarkers for major depressive disorder

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Trevino, Andrea Carolina; Malyska, Nicolas; Quatieri, Thomas F.
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Abstract
Of increasing importance in the civilian and military population is the recognition of major depressive disorder at its earliest stages and intervention before the onset of severe symptoms. Toward the goal of more effective monitoring of depression severity, we introduce vocal biomarkers that are derived automatically from phonologically-based measures of speech rate. To assess our measures, we use a 35-speaker free-response speech database of subjects treated for depression over a 6-week duration. We find that dissecting average measures of speech rate into phone-specific characteristics and, in particular, combined phone-duration measures uncovers stronger relationships between speech rate and depression severity than global measures previously reported for a speech-rate biomarker. Results of this study are supported by correlation of our measures with depression severity and classification of depression state with these vocal measures. Our approach provides a general framework for analyzing individual symptom categories through phonological units, and supports the premise that speaking rate can be an indicator of psychomotor retardation severity.
Date issued
2011-08
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/69917
Department
Lincoln Laboratory
Journal
EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing
Publisher
Springer
Citation
EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing. 2011 Aug 16;2011(1):42
Version: Author's final manuscript
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1110-8657
1687-0433

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