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    • New newborn jaundice monitoring scheme based on combination of pre-processing and color detection method 

      Muhammad Naufal, Mansor; Hariharan, Muthusamy, Dr.; Shafriza Nisha, Basah, Dr.; Sazali, Yaacob, Prof. Dr. (Elsevier B.V., 2013)
      Newborn jaundice is an apparent yellowing of the sclera or yellowish skin in newborn infants. This symptom is caused by a yellow pigment known as bilirubin. A high level of bilirubin in the infant is referred to as ...
    • Automatically infant cues recognition based on LDA and SVM classifier 

      Sazali, Yaacob, Prof. Dr.; Muhammad Nazri, Rejab; Ahmad Kadri, Junoh; Syahrull Hi-Fi Syam, Ahmad Jamil; Shafriza Nisha, Basah, Dr.; Muthusamy, Hariharan, Dr.; J, Ahmad; Mohd Lutfi, Mohd Khidir; Ku Mohd Yusri, Ku Ibrahim; Muhammad Naufal, Mansor (Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013)
      This paper presents the management of sedation in critically ill infants is a complex issue for Intensive Care Units (ICU) worldwide. Notable complications of sedation practices have been identified and efforts to modify ...
    • Automatic infant anxiety character with SVM 

      Sazali, Yaacob, Prof. Dr.; Muthusamy, Hariharan, Dr.; Shafriza Nisha, Basah, Dr.; Mohd Lutfi, Mohd Khidir; Ku Mohd Yusri, Ku Ibrahim; Syahrull Hi-Fi Syam, Ahmad Jamil; Ahmad Kadri, Junoh; Muhammad Nazri, Rejab; Muhammad Naufal, Mansor (Elsevier Ltd., 2012)
      Notable complications of sedation practices have been identified and efforts to modify these practices in ICUs have begun. While sedation-scoring tools have been introduced into clinical practice in intensive care few have ...
    • A hybrid expert system approach for telemonitoring of vocal fold pathology 

      Hariharan, Muthusamy, Dr.; Kemal, Polatb; Sindhu, Ravindran; Sazali, Yaacob, Prof. Dr. (Elsevier B.V., 2013)
      Acoustical parameters extracted from the recorded voice samples are actively pursued for accurate detection of vocal fold pathology. Most of the system for detection of vocal fold pathology uses high quality voice samples. ...
    • Objective evaluation of speech dysfluencies using wavelet packet transform with sample entropy 

      Hariharan, Muthusamy, Dr.; Chong, Yen Fook; Sindhu, Ravindran; Abdul Hamid, Adom, Prof. Dr.; Sazali, Yaacob, Prof. Dr. (Elsevier Inc, 2013-05)
      Dysfluency and stuttering are a break or interruption of normal speech such as repetition, prolongation, interjection of syllables, sounds, words or phrases and involuntary silent pauses or blocks in communication. Stuttering ...
    • Comparison of speech parameterization techniques for the classification of speech disfluencies 

      Chong, Yen Fook; Hariharan, Muthusamy, Dr.; Lim, Sin Chee; Sazali, Yaacob, Prof. Dr.; Abdul Hamid, Adom, Prof. Dr. (Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey, 2013-12)
      Stuttering assessment through the manual classification of speech disfluencies is subjective, inconsistent, time-consuming, and prone to error. The aim of this paper is to compare the effectiveness of the 3 speech feature ...
    • A new hybrid intelligent system for accurate detection of Parkinson's disease 

      Hariharan, Muthusamy; Kemal, Polat; Sindhu, Ravindran (Elsevier, 2014-03)
      Elderly people are commonly affected by Parkinson's disease (PD) which is one of the most common neurodegenerative disorders due to the loss of dopamine-producing brain cells. People with PD's (PWP) may have difficulty in ...
    • Comparison of LPCC and MFCC for isolated Malay speech recognition 

      Chong x, Chong Yen Fook; Muthusamy, Hariharan, Dr.; Sazali, Yaacob, Prof. Dr.; Abdul Hamid, Adom, Prof. Dr. (Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2012-06-18)
      Automatic speech recognition (ASR) is an area of research which deals with the recognition of speech by machine in several conditions. ASR performs well under restricted conditions (quiet environment), but performance ...
    • Investigation of vision impairments using pattern reversal VEPs and extreme learning machine 

      Vijean, Vikneswaran; Hariharan, Muthusamy; Sazali, Yaacob, Prof. Dr. (Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2012-06-18)
      Analysis of vision impairment using pattern reversal visually evoked potentials (VEP) is gaining interest from researchers. The VEPs are collected using non-invasive EEG electrodes from the scalp overlaying the occipital ...
    • Speech emotion recognition using kNN classifier 

      M. N., Hasrul; Hariharan, Muthusamy; Sazali, Yaacob, Prof. Dr. (Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2012-06-18)
      There are many methods that are commonly used by researches in order to recognize speech of human emotion. In this paper, Surrey audio-visual expressed emotion (SAVEE) database are used for the analysis. The Mel-Frequency ...
    • Message 

      Hariharan, Muthusamy (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), 2012-02-27)
      No abstract available
    • Jaundice in newborn monitoring using color detection method 

      Muhammad Naufal, Mansor; Sazali, Yaacob, Prof. Dr.; Hariharan, Muthusamy, Dr.; Shafriza Nisha, Basah, Dr.; Syahryull Hi-Fi Syam, Ahmad Jamil; Mohd Lutfi, Mohd Khidir; Muhammad Nazri, Rejab; Ku Mohd Yusri, Ku Ibrahim; Addzrull Hi-Fi Syam, Ahmad Jamil; Ahmad Kadri, Junoh (Elsevier B.V., 2012-03-10)
      Jaundice is a yellow discoloration of the skin and/or whites of the eyes that is often seen in newborn infants. The discoloration is caused by a yellow substance called bilirubin. Infants with high blood levels of bilirubin, ...
    • Preemies birth monitoring using color detection method 

      Muhammad Naufal, Mansor; Sazali, Yaacob, Prof. Dr.; Hariharan, Muthusamy, Dr.; Shafriza Nisha, Basah, Dr.; Syahryull Hi-Fi Syam, Ahmad Jamil; Mohd Lutfi, Mohd Khidir; Muhammad Nazri, Rejab; Ku Mohd Yusri, Ku Ibrahim; Addzrull Hi-Fi Syam, Ahmad Jamil; Ahmad Kadri, Junoh (Elsevier B.V., 2012-03-10)
      Administration of vaccines and nutritional supplements to baby or infant is mainly depends on their chronological age and weight. For examples, iron supplements and hepatitis B vaccine should be initiated when the baby is ...
    • Wavelet based approach for the investigation of vision impairments using single trial VEPs 

      Vijean, Vikneswaran; Hariharan, Muthusamy, Dr.; Sazali, Yaacob, Prof. Dr. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2012-03-23)
      Visually evoked potential (VEP) is being widely used for the investigation of vision abnormalities. The signals are recorded using non-invasive EEG electrodes from the Occipital Cortex while a subject is presented with a ...
    • Speech stuttering assessment using sample entropy and Least Square Support Vector Machine 

      Muthusamy, Hariharan, Dr.; Vijean, Vikneswaran; Chong, Yen Fook; Sazali, Yaacob, Prof. Dr. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2012-03)
      This work is intended to discuss the performance of sample entropy feature for the recognition of stuttered events. The data for the analysis is taken from the UCLASS database. Manual segmentation is performed to identify ...
    • Infant cry classification to identify asphyxia using time-frequency analysis and radial basis neural networks 

      Muthusamy, Hariharan; Jeyaraman, Saraswathy; Sindhu, Ravindran; Wan Khairunizam, Wan Ahmad, Dr.; Sazali, Yaacob, Prof. Dr. (Elsevier Ltd, 2012-08)
      A cry is the first verbal communication of infants and it is described as a loud, high-pitched sound made by infants in response to certain situations. Infant cry signals can be used to identify physical or psychological ...
    • A comparative study of wavelet families for classification of wrist motions 

      Muthusamy, Hariharan; Chong, Yen Fook; Sindhu, Ravindran; Bukhari, Ilias; Sazali, Yaacob, Prof. Dr. (Elsevier Ltd., 2012-11)
      The selection of most suitable mother wavelet function is still an open research problem in various signal and image processing applications. This paper presents a comparative study of different wavelet families (Daubechies, ...
    • Malay speech recognition in normal and noise condition 

      Fook, C. Y.; Hariharan, Muthusamy, Dr.; Sazali, Yaacob, Prof. Dr.; Abdul Hamid, Adom, Prof. Dr. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2012-03)
      Automatic speech recognition (ASR) is an area of research which deals with the recognition of speech by machine in several conditions. ASR performs well under restricted conditions (quiet environment), but performance ...
    • Optimal selection of long time acoustic features using GA for the assessment of vocal fold disorders 

      Sindhu, Ravindran; Neoh, Siew Chin, Dr.; Muthusamy, Hariharan, Dr. (Trans Tech Publications, 2013)
      In recent times, vocal fold problems have been increasing dramatically due to unhealthy social habits and voice abuse. Non-invasive methods like acoustic analysis of voice signals can be used to investigate such problems. ...
    • Effect of normalization method on classification of speech dysfluencies using LPC, LPCC and WLPCC 

      Lim, Sin Chee; Sazali, Yaacob, Prof. Madya Dr.; Muthusamy, Hariharan (Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)Centre for Graduate Studies, 2010-10-16)
      The main aim of this paper is to discuss the enhancement of the classification performance on the speech dysfluencies, namely, prolongations and repetitions after employ statistical normalization (SN) on signal and ...