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Expert System-Type Approach to Voice Disorders: Scheduling Botulinum Toxin Treatment for Adductor Spasmodic Dysphonia

A. Salvatore,A. Biswas,V. Kreinovich,Bertha Manriquez,M. Cannito,R. Sinard

Published 2006 in Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics

ABSTRACT

One of the most debilitating disorders is adductor spasmodic dysphonia (ADSD), a voice disorder caused by involuntary movements of the muscles of the larynx (voice box). For treating ADSD, botulinum toxin (BT) injections turned out to be very useful. However, the effects of BT are highly variable, so at present, there is no objective criterion of when such a BT treatment is necessary. It is therefore desirable to develop such a criterion. In this paper, we show that traditional statistical techniques are unable to generate such a criterion, while a natural expert system approach seems to be capable of generating reasonably simple rules that determine when a BT treatment is necessary.

PUBLICATION RECORD

  • Publication year

    2006

  • Venue

    Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics

  • Publication date

    2006-05-20

  • Fields of study

    Medicine, Computer Science

  • Identifiers
    DOI 10.20965/jaciii.2006.p0332
  • External record

    Open on Semantic Scholar

  • Source metadata

    Semantic Scholar

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