抄録
Assessment and maintenance of the swallowing function is important to a person's quality of life. Recently, the swallowing sound has been used to assess the swallowing function. However, start time, end time, and duration of swallowing were manually obtained by visual and auditory inspections in many previous studies. Their automated detection needed. Therefore, in this study, we developed a swallowing time measurement system that can automatically obtain those metrics from the swallowing sound. We then evaluated the detection performance, and confirmed that the developed system can correctly detect them 87.1% of the time.
