Performance comparison between mutative and constriction PSO in optimizing MFCC for the classification of hypothyroid infant cry

Abstract

This paper compares the performance of two variants of the Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm; PSO with constriction factor (PSO), and mutative PSO (MPSO) in optimizing Mel Frequency Cepstrum Coefficients (MFCC) parameters. The parameters were used to extract an optimal feature set for classifying healthy and hypothyroid infant cry using Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLP). Specifically, the PSO variants optimize the number of filter banks and number of cepstrum coefficients in MFCC. Based on the values chosen by both PSO variants, the extracted features were then fed to a MLP classifier, which was trained to discriminate between the healthy and hypothyroid infant cry. Comparisons between the performance of PSO variants showed that MPSO managed to improve the convergence rate by 2.67% compared to PSO. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.