八木 直美, 永見 慎輔, 上野 博司, 家邉 徹, 尾家 慶彦, 越久 仁敬
自動制御連合講演会講演論文集 57 2002-2005 2014年
Dysphagia is a common symptom in many neurological disorders of the swallowing function. In the current clinical practice, diagnosis of dysphagia is based on video fluorographic images of the bolus movement. Although it is the gold standard technique, but patients cannot be subjected to it on a daily/nightly basis because of X-ray radiation exposure. Therefore, the present study proposes a noninvasive biomechanical measurement techniques to detect the phases of swallowing based on acoustic frequency factors and respiratory flow. As the results, the proposed algorithm performed a high specificity of 86.36 \%. We suggest that the significant increase in reliability was caused by the combined appraisal of two factors from sound signal and breathing information.