Research Article

Diagnosing Parkinson’s Diseases Using Fuzzy Neural System

Table 1

List of measurement methods applied to acoustic signals recorded from each subject.

Name ASCII subject name and recording number

MDVP:Fo (Hz) Average vocal fundamental frequency
MDVP:Fhi (Hz) Maximum vocal fundamental frequency
MDVP:Flo (Hz) Minimum vocal fundamental frequency
MDVP:Jitter (%) Five measures of variation in fundamental frequency
MDVP:Jitter (Abs)
MDVP:RAP
MDVP:PPQ
Jitter:DDP
MDVP:Shimmer Six measures of variation in amplitude
MDVP:Shimmer (dB)
Shimmer:APQ3
Shimmer:APQ5
MDVP:APQ
Shimmer:DDA
NHR Two measures of ratio of noise to tonal components in the voice
HNR
RPDE Two nonlinear dynamical complexity measures
D2
DFASignal fractal scaling exponent
Spread1 Three nonlinear measures of fundamental frequency variation
Spread2
PPE
Status Health status of the subject: one, Parkinson’s; zero, healthy