Voice Analysis Techniques for Medical Diagnosis
A special issue of Bioengineering (ISSN 2306-5354). This special issue belongs to the section "Biosignal Processing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 20
Special Issue Editors
Interests: voice biomarker; bioengineering; voice analysis
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Interests: wearable system for non-invasive physiological monitoring; statistical and nonlinear biomedical signal processing; affective computing; mood/mental/neurological disorders; human–animal–robot interaction; autonomic nervous system investigation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It has been established that noticeable changes in patients' voices can be caused by various diseases. For this reason, researchers have endeavored to analyze patients' voices to achieve medical diagnosis and treatment for over 50 years. Due to recent advancements in wearable devices and smartphones, digital biomarkers that objectively visualize the presence or absence of disease, as well as the changes in symptoms caused by treatment, have garnered enhanced attention. Since voice data can now be captured as digital information, it is considered a potential digital biomarker and is now being studied as a voice biomarker. Voice biomarkers may offer objective indicators in areas that have traditionally depended on subjective judgments. For example, research on the diagnosis of neuropsychiatric conditions such as depression, dementia, and Parkinson's disease has already been conducted. Additionally, studies have assessed the severity of respiratory diseases such as COVID-19 and cardiovascular conditions such as heart failure. Voice biomarkers are therefore expected to aid in both the medical field and healthcare contexts, including mental health support for athletes and the evaluation of driving abilities in the elderly. Therefore, this Special Issue welcomes the submission of articles that address a broad range of applications for voice biomarkers, extending beyond the diagnosis and evaluation of diseases.
Prof. Dr. Shinichi Tokuno
Dr. Antonio Lanata
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- voice biomarker
- diagnosis
- monitoring
- severity assessment
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