Non-Invasive Parkinson's Disease Screening from Vocal Biomarkers: A Subject-Level Machine Learning Framework with Bayesian Optimisation and Explainable AI
An estimated ten million people live with Parkinson's, yet timely diagnosis remains constrained by specialist assessment, costly imaging, and unequal care access. Phonation analysis offers a low-cost alternative: dopaminergic degeneration causes vocal impairments years before motor symptoms emerge, enabling community s...