Quantum Approaches for Dysphonia Assessment in Small Speech Datasets

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Auteurs principaux: Tran, Ha, Kashyap, Bipasha, Pathirana, Pubudu N.
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author Tran, Ha
Kashyap, Bipasha
Pathirana, Pubudu N.
author_facet Tran, Ha
Kashyap, Bipasha
Pathirana, Pubudu N.
contents Dysphonia, a prevalent medical condition, leads to voice loss, hoarseness, or speech interruptions. To assess it, researchers have been investigating various machine learning techniques alongside traditional medical assessments. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have gained popularity for their success in audio classification and speech recognition. However, the limited availability of speech data, poses a challenge for CNNs. This study evaluates the performance of CNNs against a novel hybrid quantum-classical approach, Quanvolutional Neural Networks (QNNs), which are well-suited for small datasets. The audio data was preprocessed into Mel spectrograms, comprising 243 training samples and 61 testing samples in total, and used in ten experiments. Four models were developed (two QNNs and two CNNs) with the second models incorporating additional layers to boost performance. The results revealed that QNN models consistently outperformed CNN models in accuracy and stability across most experiments.
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spellingShingle Quantum Approaches for Dysphonia Assessment in Small Speech Datasets
Tran, Ha
Kashyap, Bipasha
Pathirana, Pubudu N.
Emerging Technologies
Sound
Dysphonia, a prevalent medical condition, leads to voice loss, hoarseness, or speech interruptions. To assess it, researchers have been investigating various machine learning techniques alongside traditional medical assessments. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have gained popularity for their success in audio classification and speech recognition. However, the limited availability of speech data, poses a challenge for CNNs. This study evaluates the performance of CNNs against a novel hybrid quantum-classical approach, Quanvolutional Neural Networks (QNNs), which are well-suited for small datasets. The audio data was preprocessed into Mel spectrograms, comprising 243 training samples and 61 testing samples in total, and used in ten experiments. Four models were developed (two QNNs and two CNNs) with the second models incorporating additional layers to boost performance. The results revealed that QNN models consistently outperformed CNN models in accuracy and stability across most experiments.
title Quantum Approaches for Dysphonia Assessment in Small Speech Datasets
topic Emerging Technologies
Sound
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.08968