Research Article

Modulation Spectra Morphological Parameters: A New Method to Assess Voice Pathologies according to the GRBAS Scale

Table 3

Results expressed as efficiency ± confidence interval and Cohen's Kappa Index for MFCCs and MS features including and .

Features Dimensionality reduction Agreement subset
Efficiency (%) Efficiency (%)

MFCC + PCA 78.2 ± 8.70.6774.1 ± 9.30.60
LDA 72.4 ± 9.40.5858.8 ± 10.50.35
MFCC + + PCA 80.5 ± 8.30.7177.7 ± 8.80.66
LDA 72.4 ± 9.40.5862.4 ± 10.30.41

MS + PCA 81.6 ± 8.10.7380.0 ± 8.50.69
LDA 80.5 ± 8.30.7281.2 ± 8.30.71
MS + + PCA 79.3 ± 8.50.6380.0 ± 8.50.70
LDA 80.5 ± 8.30.7184.7 ± 7.70.76