Dysphagia screening with sEMG, accelerometry and speech: Multimodal machine and deep learning approaches

dc.contributor.affiliationRoldan-Vasco, S., Faculty of Engineering, Instituto Tecnológico Metropolitano, Medellín, Colombia, GITA Lab. Faculty of Engineering, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia
dc.contributor.affiliationOrozco-Duque, A., Faculty of Engineering, Universidad de Medellín, Medellín, Colombia
dc.contributor.affiliationOrozco-Arroyave, J.R., GITA Lab. Faculty of Engineering, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia, Pattern Recognition Lab, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
dc.contributor.authorRoldan-Vasco S
dc.contributor.authorOrozco-Duque A
dc.contributor.authorOrozco-Arroyave J.R.
dc.date.accessioned2024-12-27T20:52:03Z
dc.date.available2024-12-27T20:52:03Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.descriptionDysphagia is a swallowing disorder that affects food, liquid, or saliva transit from the mouth to the stomach. Dysphagia leads to malnutrition, dehydration, and aspiration of the bolus into the respiratory system, which can lead to pneumonia with subsequent death. Clinically accepted dysphagia diagnosis and follow-up methods are invasive, uncomfortable, expensive, and experience-dependent. This paper explores a multimodal non-invasive approach to objectively assess dysphagia with three biosignals: surface electromyography, accelerometry-based cervical auscultation, and speech. The defined acquisition protocol was applied to patients with dysphagia and healthy control subjects. Features were extracted from the three biosignals in different domains with the aim of proposing interpretable biomarkers. Finally, the methodology was evaluated according to the accuracy and area under the receiver operating characteristic curve obtained with different classifiers. According to our results, all signals demonstrated their suitability for dysphagia screening, specially speech and multi-modal scenarios evaluated with machine learning models and also with Gated Multimodal Units. This paper contributes to reducing the knowledge gap about swallowing-related phenomena and incorporates non-invasive and multi-modal methods with high potential to be transferred and implemented in clinical practice. © 2024 Elsevier Ltd
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.bspc.2024.107030
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11407/8708
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherElsevier Ltdspa
dc.publisher.facultyFacultad de Ingenieríasspa
dc.publisher.programIngeniería de Telecomunicacionesspa
dc.relation.citationvolume100
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dc.sourceBiomedical Signal Processing and Control
dc.sourceBiomed. Signal Process. Control
dc.sourceScopus
dc.subjectAccelerometryeng
dc.subjectDysphagiaeng
dc.subjectGated multimodal unitseng
dc.subjectMachine learningeng
dc.subjectMultimodal modelseng
dc.subjectsEMGeng
dc.subjectSignal processingeng
dc.subjectSpeecheng
dc.subjectDiseaseseng
dc.subjectLung cancereng
dc.subjectAccelerometryeng
dc.subjectBiosignalseng
dc.subjectDysphagiaeng
dc.subjectGated multimodal uniteng
dc.subjectLearning approacheng
dc.subjectMachine-learningeng
dc.subjectMulti-modaleng
dc.subjectMultimodal modelseng
dc.subjectSEMGeng
dc.subjectSignal-processingeng
dc.subjectElectromyographyeng
dc.titleDysphagia screening with sEMG, accelerometry and speech: Multimodal machine and deep learning approacheseng
dc.typeArticle
dc.type.localArtículo de revistaspa
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