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. 2016 Feb 20;15:20. doi: 10.1186/s12938-016-0138-5

Table 7.

Speakers clinical variables estimation using i-vectors-SVR (RBF kernel)

Clinical variable I-vector dimension
Mean absolute error (MAE) Correlation coefficient (ρ)
400 300 200 100 50 30 400 300 200 100 50 30
AHI 14.04 13.91 13.63 13.48 13.84 14.12 0.00 0.17 0.25 0.26 0.18 0.02
Height (cm) 5.28 5.23 5.16 5.24 5.46 5.43 0.40 0.41 0.42 0.41 0.29 0.32
Age (years) 9.46 9.22 8.29 8.68 9.10 9.53 0.42 0.51 0.61 0.57 0.50 0.41
Weight (kg) 12.39 12.82 12.18 12.11 12.27 12.59 0.29 0.18 0.32 0.35 0.34 0.24
BMI (kg/m2) 3.73 3.70 3.66 3.68 3.72 3.77 0.20 0.18 0.27 0.27 0.21 0.14
CP (cm) 2.38 2.42 2.32 2.34 2.42 2.44 0.31 0.26 0.42 0.40 0.31 0.26

AHI apnea–hypopnea index, BMI body mass index, CP cervical perimeter

The correlation coefficients (ρ) are significant beyond the 0.01 level of confidence