Skip to main content
. 2017 Oct 12;8(1):29–39. doi: 10.1007/s13534-017-0051-2

Table 1.

Description of dysphonia patterns obtained from patient voice records [3942]

Dysphonia patterns Description
Fo (Hz) Average vocal fundamental frequency
Fhi (Hz) Maximum vocal fundamental frequency
Flo (Hz) Minimum vocal fundamental frequency
Jitter (%) Jitter in percentage
Jitter (Abs) Absolute value
RAP Relative amplitude perturbation
PPQ Period perturbation quotient
DDP Difference of differences between cycles, divided by average period
Shimmer Local shimmer
Shimmer (dB) Shimmer in decibels
Shimmer:APQ3 Three point amplitude perturbation quotient
Shimmer:APQ5 Five point amplitude perturbation quotient
MDVP:APQ Amplitude perturbation quotient
Shimmer:DDA Average absolute difference between consecutive differences between amplitudes of consecutive periods
NHR Noise-to-harmonics ratio
HNR Harmonics-to-noise ratio
RPDE Recurrence period density entropy
DFA Detrended fluctuation analysis
Spread1 Nonlinear measure of fundamental frequency
Spread2 Nonlinear measure of fundamental frequency
D2 Correlation dimension
PPE Pitch period entropy