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. 2026 Sep 10;14:410–424. doi: 10.1109/JTEHM.2026.3732514

TABLE 2. Feature-importance ranking for HMM feature selection. Dark green marks the most important features, while higher ranks in dark purple indicate lower importance. Corresponding LDA rankings are provided in the Supplementary Material A, Table 5.

Feature MI SFS Feature MI SFS
Zero-Crossing Rate 4 28 MFCC16 22 4
Root-Mean-Square Energy 1 7 MFCC17 37 16
Spectral Centroid 3 39 MFCC18 11 27
Spectral Bandwidth 2 44 MFCC19 33 10
Spectral Contrast 20 2 MFCC20 15 43
Spectral Rolloff 6 46 MFCC21 25 12
Spectral Flatness 7 24 MFCC22 18 30
MFCC0 28 9 MFCC23 45 23
MFCC1 5 8 MFCC24 23 45
MFCC2 24 22 MFCC25 42 18
MFCC3 10 33 MFCC26 32 37
MFCC4 27 42 MFCC27 34 5
MFCC5 13 1 MFCC28 30 41
MFCC6 19 26 MFCC29 44 32
MFCC7 29 14 MFCC30 26 19
MFCC8 31 3 MFCC31 46 31
MFCC9 38 34 MFCC32 16 38
MFCC10 43 29 MFCC33 36 6
MFCC11 35 21 MFCC34 17 20
MFCC12 9 13 MFCC35 41 17
MFCC13 14 36 MFCC36 12 25
MFCC14 8 15 MFCC37 40 11
MFCC15 39 35 MFCC38 21 40